The presidency of Donald J. Trump, has had a considerable impacts on American politics and society. One of these was his altering of the comedic mood in America, taking comedy away from many of its traditions. His presidency turned comedy into political weaponry, as comedians on the liberal side of politics turned their efforts to ridiculing Trump’s buffoonish persona, while on the conservative side, a Trump-supportive group of comedians mocked those very comedians who opposed Trump. Trump himself emerged as a comedian, performing his dark, caustic, comical routines with consummate skill at...

Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs.

Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs.

In 1940, two American mathematicians, Kasner and Newman, published a book titledMathematics and the Imaginationwhich was met with resounding success. The main claim of the book was that mathematics was a product of the imagination, arguably linking the two for the first time in the history of mathematics and even psychology. The ideas in Kasner and Newman’s work coincided largely with those of the eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico (1688-1744), sometimes called the “philosopher of the imagination.” Vico put forth his views on how the imagination (which he called...