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The Public Eye Magazine - Fall 2005 - Vol. 19, No. 2

Conservative Campus Organizing Growing Pains or Arrested Development? By Pam Chamberlain To judge by the amount of media attention, the campus Right had a good year. Or a good two years. Students staged a Capture an Illegal Immigrant Day, published increasing numbers of campus newspapers with decidedly right-wing editorial policies, and lobbied for a Student Academic Bill of Rights on multiple campuses and in several state legislatures to bring attention to what they saw as silenced conservative voices on campus. Read more…

Thinking about Elephants Toward a Dialogue with George Lakoff By William A. Gamson and Charlotte Ryan Since last November’s election, George Lakoff's book, Don't Think of an Elephant!, has deservedly captured the imagination of mainstream Democrats and of many progressives as well. He offers us the promise that we can achieve our political vision if only we spent a little more time framing” our messages to appeal to mainstream America. But we shouldn't get so excited about Lakoff's contribution that we overlook some deafening silences or, to switch metaphors in midstream, some glaring blind spots in his way of framing American politics. Read more…

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Fighting the Far Right With Research
By Abby Scher
People wondered who was tucking neo-Nazi literature in their corner of Montana paradise. Everybody was talking. Some people started organizing.
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Guest Commentary By Teresa Odendahl Philanthropic Patriot Games: How the U.S. Government Targets Charities in its War on Terror

Book Review 'With God On Their Side' By Esther Kaplan

Reports in Review Surveillance-Industrial Complex by Jay Stanley, American Civil Liberties Union