I'm Right and You're an Idiot - 2nd Edition

James Hoggan is a highly-respected and award-winning public relations expert who, for more than 30 years, has been involved in a wide range of both complex and controversial conversations. Jim is president of the Vancouver PR firm Hoggan & Associates, past chair of the David Suzuki Foundation board, and founder of the influential website DeSmogBlog, which exposes misinformation campaigns polluting the public debate around climate change and the environment. Jim has been called to assist a wide range of organizations such as Shell Global's External Review Committee, Al Gore's Climate Project Canada, Canadian Pacific Railways, the Dalai Lama Center, the BC Law Society, the Government of Ontario, and the B.C. Treaty Commission. Heis author of two previous books on the topic of integrity in public communication, Climate Cover-up and Do the Right Thing. He lives on Salt Spring Island, Canada.

Acknowledgments Prologue: A Beginner's Mind Part I: The Polluted Public Square Section A: Smashing Heads Doesn't Open Minds 1. Like Ships in the Night with Daniel Yankelovichand Steve Rosell 2. The Advocacy Trap with Roger Conner 3. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)with Carol Tavris 4. Morality Binds and Blinds with Jonathan Haidt 5. Why We Want to Be Misled with Dan Kahan Section B: A Failure to Communicate 6. Facts Are Not Enough with George Lakoff 7. Matters of Concern with Bruno Latour Section C: Duped and How 8. The Self-regulating Psychopath with Joel Bakan and Noam Chomsky 9. Steve Bannon's Full-service Propaganda Machine with research by Carole Cadwalladr 10. Foreign-funded Radicals 11. Assault on Democracy with Alex Himelfarb 12. Silencing the Voices of Others with Jason Stanley 13. Gaslighting Blurs Our Reality with Bryant Welch 14. Summary: The Polluted Public Square Part II: Speak the Truth, But Not to Punish Section D: Leaning into the Future 15. Power and Love with Adam Kahane 16. No Fish? No Fish Sticks with Peter Senge 17. Listen Deeply with Otto Scharmer Section E: The Mighty Tool of Public Narrative 18. What Are They Thinking? with Anthony Leiserowitz and Ed Maibach 19. The Myth of Apathy with Renee Lertzman 20. Psychic Numbing with Paul Slovic 21. Sometimes David Wins with Marshall Ganz Section F: From the Heart 22. The Golden Rule with Karen Armstrong 23. Tending Our Inner Ecology with Joan Halifax 24. Speak the Truth, But Not to Punish with Thich Nhat Hanh 25. We Need Warmheartedness with the 14th Dalai Lama Epilogue: Hope, Compassion, and Courage Notes Index About the Author About New Society Publishers