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... and he might actually be right! Listen in and hear why. OA1105 - Harvard Law professor and anti-corruption advocate Lawrence Lessig is almost certainly the only person on Earth to have had a personal relationship with both visionary hacker Aaron Swartz and former Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia. We warmly welcome Professor Lessig back to OA to share--among many other things--his experiences with each of these very different people, why he remains optimistic about campaign finance reform going into the second Trump administration, and the originalist argument against Super PACs. “Why They Mattered: Aaron Swartz,” Lawrence Lessig, Politico (12/22/2013) They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy , Lawrence Lessig (2024) Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It , Lawrence Lessig (2011) Support End Super Pacs Check out the OA Linktree for all the places to go and things to do! If you’d like to support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at patreon.com/law !

Contributor(s): Chris Gilson, Professor Lawrence Lessig | In October 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to spoke to Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Cited by The New Yorker as “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the internet era”, Professor Lessig now focuses on “institutional corruption”, especially as that affects democracy. He is the author of many books, including They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy, Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution, and most recently, How to Steal a Presidential Election. They spoke about how AI and the media can affect the legitimacy and conduct of elections, how policymakers have attempted to govern and control the use of AI and about how citizens’ assemblies could be a way to protect democracy against AI’s influence. This episode was produced by Chris Gilson and Anderson Tan. Further reading and resources Podcast and video of the 8 October 2024 event, ‘What AI is doing to America's democracy’ – LSE Public Lecture with Professor Lawrence Lessig and LSE President and Vice Chancellor Professor Larry Kramer - https://www.lse.ac.uk/united-states/events/2024-events/What-AI-is-doing-to-Americas-democracy How to Steal a Presidential Election (Yale University Press, 2024) - https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300270792/how-to-steal-a-presidential-election/

Lawrence Lessig visits Google's New York office to discuss his book "Free Culture." Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity, or how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, CODE and THE FUTURE OF IDEAS, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. In FREE CULTURE, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they're inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation. All creative works—books, movies, records, software, and so on—are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the First Congress in 1790 was 14 years, renewable once. Now it is closer to two hundred. Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can't do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What's at stake is our freedom—freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine. Originally published in March of 2007. Visit http://youtube.com/TalksAtGoogle/ to watch the video.

Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. (The Roy Furman chair is in honor of this extraordinary alumnus.) Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, where he was the Berkman Professor of Law until 2000, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. Lessig clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. He serves on the Board of the AXA Research Fund, and is an Emeritus member of the board at Creative Commons. Lessig is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award. In 2002, he was named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale. Lawrence Lessig ⁠ Free Culture – ⁠https://amzn.to/4aFonuS⁠ Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0 – ⁠https://amzn.to/4aYaEz3⁠ Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It – ⁠⁠https://amzn.to/4cZsdAF⁠ Lawrence Lessig's entire collection of books – ⁠⁠https://amzn.to/4b4hcfP⁠ Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theunadulteratedintellect/support

On this milestone episode of CC's Open Minds, join us as we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Creative Commons' founding on December 19, 2021. We take you back to Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig's keynote from the 2021 CC Global Summit, originally held in September 2021. Lawrence, fondly referred to by many as Larry, reflects on how CC began, what it has accomplished, and is later joined by Creative Commons CEO, Catherine Stihler, for a fireside chat where he shares his hopes for CC for the next twenty years and beyond. Lawrence is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He's a distinguished attorney, political activist and incredible visionary. Follow Lawrence Lessig on Twitter: @lessig Creative Commons on Twitter: https://twitter.com/creativecommons Learn more about CC’s ‘Better Sharing’ 20th Anniversary Campaign: https://creativecommons.org/20-years/ Donate to support the work of Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/donate Featured music: " Happy Birthday to You Ska " by Serge Quadrado . Available for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License at the Free Music Archive . Theme music: "Day Bird" by Broke for Free ( brokeforfree.com ). Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license , at the Free Music Archive . Open Minds … from Creative Commons is licensed to the public under CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

In this episode we talk with Professor Lawrence Lessig (Harvard University). Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. Lessig is the author of some of the most influential works on IT-Law such as 'Code and other Laws of Cyberspace'. Links: https://www.lessig.org/ https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10519/Lessig https://creativecommons.org/2014/04/29/lawrence-lessig-to-receive-lifetime-achievement-webby-award/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HAw1i4gOU4 https://cyber.harvard.edu/works/lessig/LNC_Q_D2.PDF https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3308558.3313786 http://www.codev2.cc/ https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-academic-corruption-works/

Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig joins to talk about how we can reform our democracy and save ourselves from this mess. Lawrence and Andrew discuss the cubicle farms where politicians dial for dollars, how "slow democracy" can improve our political discourse, and how we can reverse the decline of journalism in America. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-3oTqBWrj0s Lawrence Lessig - https://twitter.com/lessig | https://www.lessig.org/ Andrew Yang - https://twitter.com/AndrewYang | https://movehumanityforward.com Zach Graumann - https://twitter.com/Zach_Graumann

Thanks again for your support and listening. Today, I’m very honored to speak with Lawrence Lessig. For those that don’t know this impressive human. Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, prior to which he founded the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and taught at the University of Chicago. Founder of Equal Citizens and a founding board member of Creative Commons, Lessig serves on the Scientific Board of AXA Research Fund and has received numerous awards including a Webby, Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, Scientific American 50 and Fastcase 50 Awards. Cited by The New Yorker as “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era,” Lessig's current work addresses “institutional corruption”—relationships which, while legal, weaken public trust in an institution—especially as that affects democracy. His books include: They Don't Represent Us (November 2019) , Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution (May 2019) , America, Compromised (2018) , Republic, Lost v2 (2015) , Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It (2011 ) among many others. Lessig holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge University, and a JD from Yale. We get in a little bit of Lawrence's personal background, why he didn't become a corporate lobbyist. We discuss why we need to get fundraising type money out of politics. What public campaign financing looks like and how citizens could take part in this. We discuss civic juries, what they are and how they can be useful for our democracy. How everyday citizens can meaningfully impact our democracy right now. We also discuss electoral college reform and his non-profit that is working on this named Fix the College. And some media recommendations. Namely, the The Swamp on HBO and his podcast Another Way. Again, please rate, review and subscribe. Thanks again for your support! Note: the background music is by my good friend Taavi of https://bestproducer.substack.com/

Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, prior to which he founded the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and taught at the University of Chicago. Founder of Equal Citizens and a founding board member of Creative Commons, Lessig serves on the Scientific Board of AXA Research Fund and has received numerous awards including a Webby, Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, Scientific American 50 and Fastcase 50 Awards. Cited by The New Yorker as “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era,” Lessig's current work addresses “institutional corruption”—relationships which, while legal, weaken public trust in an institution—especially as that affects democracy. His books include: They Don't Represent Us (November 2019), Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution (May 2019), America, Compromised (2018), Republic, Lost v2 (2015), Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It (2011) among many others. Lessig holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge University, and a JD from Yale. WEBSITE: lessig.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lessig.org/ Equal Citizens Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EqualCitizens/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawlessig/ Equal Citizens Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/equalcitizens.us/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lessig/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/equalcitizens/ Twitter: @lessig Equal Citizens Twitter: @EqualCitizensUS ----more---- Patreon: patreon.com/simonjedrew Coaching: simonjedrew.com/coaching/ Practical Stoic Mastermind: facebook.com/groups/practicalstoicmastermind Facebook: facebook.com/simonjedrew Instagram: instagram.com/simonjedrew LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/simonjedrew Website: simonjedrew.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SFP#5 about regulation with Professor Lawrence Lessig For our Software Freedom Podcast we talk with people who have inspiring ideas about software freedom. In this episode, we talk with Professor Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, about regulation of society, offline as well as online, about the different means of regulation, and shed light on regulations through code. This fifth episode of the Software Freedom Podcast covers the complicated topic of regulation. Our guest is Professor Lawrence Lessig from the Harvard Law School. Lessig is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation , as well as founder and present Board member of Creative Commons . Lessig has published several books, including the influential and often-quoted "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" . In this episode we discuss with Professor Lessig the different types of regulation that affect society both online and offline, such as laws, norms, the market, or architecture. In this respect we also touch upon code as a means of regulation. Enjoy learning about the positive and negative effects that some of these regulations can have on society, as well as the further development of ideas. Katharina Nocun, Lawrence Lessig and Matthias Kirschner while recording the Software Freedom Podcast. Read more: Professor Lawrence Lessig Books from Professor Lawrence Lessig Free Software Foundation Creative Commons Copyright What is Free Software? The four freedoms of Free Software If you liked this episode and want to support our continuing work for software freedom, please help us with a donation . Join the FSFE community and support the podcast

SFP#5 about regulation with Professor Lawrence Lessig For our Software Freedom Podcast we talk with people who have inspiring ideas about software freedom. In this episode, we talk with Professor Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, about regulation of society, offline as well as online, about the different means of regulation, and shed light on regulations through code. This fifth episode of the Software Freedom Podcast covers the complicated topic of regulation. Our guest is Professor Lawrence Lessig from the Harvard Law School. Lessig is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation , as well as founder and present Board member of Creative Commons . Lessig has published several books, including the influential and often-quoted "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" . In this episode we discuss with Professor Lessig the different types of regulation that affect society both online and offline, such as laws, norms, the market, or architecture. In this respect we also touch upon code as a means of regulation. Enjoy learning about the positive and negative effects that some of these regulations can have on society, as well as the further development of ideas. Katharina Nocun, Lawrence Lessig and Matthias Kirschner while recording the Software Freedom Podcast. Read more: Professor Lawrence Lessig Books from Professor Lawrence Lessig Free Software Foundation Creative Commons Copyright What is Free Software? The four freedoms of Free Software If you liked this episode and want to support our continuing work for software freedom, please help us with a donation . Join the FSFE community and support the podcast

Former US Presidential candidate among the Democratic Party (2016), Lester Lawrence Lessig III is an attorney, university lecturer and political activist. Lawrence holds the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard University. He is the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. A supporter of net neutrality, he founded the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University. Lessig also formerly taught at the University of Chicago. Early in his career, Lessig clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. His books include: The Don't Represent US: Reclaiming Our Democracy (2019), America, Compromised (2018), Republic, Lost v2 (2015) and Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It (2011). Other publications of note by Lessig are: Code v2 (2006), The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). "The most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era." - The New Yorker Lawrence Lessig holds degrees of the University of Pennsylvania (BA and BS), an MA in philosophy from Trinity College, Cambridge University and a JD from Yale University. He is a native of Rapid City, South Dakota. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.

Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig discusses the fundamental issue that he says underlies many of our current political problems - "unrepresentativeness." He offers some creative prescriptions for how to cure America’s unrepresentativeness problem such as public funding of election campaigns (including campaigns for Congress), a radical restructuring of the United States Senate, and some ways to reform the Electoral College without having to change the Constitution. He also says we the people are complicit in America’s political dysfunction, and suggests some ways that Americans can take a more proactive role in government such as "civic juries" and citizen referenda. Plus I ask this distinguished legal scholar to weigh in on the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Order Lawrence Lessig's new book They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy on Amazon, Audible or wherever books are sold. Follow him at www.lessig.com or on Twitter at @Lessig. Today's episode was sponsored by Kendra Scott Jewelry. Visit www.kendrascott.com and use promo code KICK for 20% off your next purchase or mention this ad in your local Kendra Scott store. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#ads Stream any unabridged audiobook of your choice with premium access by starting your trial on: https://booksreader.space/al-1999/ Title: They Don't Represent Us Author: Lawrence Lessig Narrator: Lawrence Lessig Format: mp3 Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins Release date: 11-05-19 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 67 ratings Genres: Democracy Publisher's Summary: In They Don’t Represent Us, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig charts the way in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy, including our media, respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nation’s citizenry. But the blame does not only lie with “them” - Washington’s politicians and power brokers, Lessig argues. The problem is also “us.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/374990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy Author: Lawrence Lessig Narrator: Lawrence Lessig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 5, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: “This urgent book offers not only a clear-eyed explanation of the forces that broke our politics, but a thoughtful and, yes, patriotic vision of how we create a government that’s truly by and for the people.”—DAVID DALEY, bestselling author of Ratf**ked and Unrigged In the vein of On Tyranny and How Democracies Die, the bestselling author of Republic, Lost argues with insight and urgency that our democracy no longer represents us and shows that reform is both necessary and possible. America’s democracy is in crisis. Along many dimensions, a single flaw—unrepresentativeness—has detached our government from the people. And as a people, our fractured partisanship and ignorance on critical issues drive our leaders to stake out ever more extreme positions. In They Don’t Represent Us, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig charts the way in which the fundamental institutions of our democracy, including our media, respond to narrow interests rather than to the needs and wishes of the nation’s citizenry. But the blame does not only lie with “them”—Washington’s politicians and power brokers, Lessig argues. The problem is also “us.” “We the people” are increasingly uninformed about the issues, while ubiquitous political polling exacerbates the problem, reflecting and normalizing our ignorance and feeding it back into the system as representative of our will. What we need, Lessig contends, is a series of reforms, from governmental institutions to the public itself, including: - A move immediately to public campaign funding, leading to more representative candidates - A reformed Electoral College, that gives the President a reason to represent America as a whole - A federal standard to end partisan gerrymandering in the states - A radically reformed Senate - A federal penalty on states that don’t secure to their people an equal freedom to vote - Institutions that empower the people to speak in an informed and deliberative way A soul-searching and incisive examination of our failing political culture, this nonpartisan call to arms speaks to every citizen, offering a far-reaching platform for reform that could save our democracy and make it work for all of us. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

In this episode... Lawrence Lessig , Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School discusses his newest book, Fidelity and Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution. In his book, Professor Furman discusses the challenges Supreme Court Justices face when interpreting our "ancient' Constitution in modern times. In this discussion, Professor Lessig explains what he means by fidelity to the role of judicial decision making and explains that Supreme Court justices, regardless on either side of the political spectrum share the same constraints. The Court, he suggests, has an obligation to defend its institution and to make sure the institution can survive and develop its authority to do its job. As our discussion makes clear, in Fidelity and Constraint , Professor Lessig mines past judicial decisions to explain present-day judicial rule-making making for a compelling and understandable read. About our guest… Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the Board of the AXA Research Fund, and on the advisory boards of Creative Commons and the Sunlight Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale. To Learn more about our Professor Lessig visit: http://www.lessig.org/about/ You can purchase Fidelity and Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution by clicking on the link: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/fidelity-and-constraint-9780190945664?cc=us&lang=en& - As always, if you have any suggestions for an episode topic, please let us know! You can email leslie@lawtofact.com or tweet @lawtofact . - Find us on Twitter , Instagram , and Facebook ! Review us on iTunes , your opinion matters! - Want to stay updated on all things Law to Fact? Join our mailing list by visiting www.LawToFact.com . - This episode is sponsored by Kaplan Bar Review. Getting ready for the bar exam means you’ll need to choose the study program that’s right for you. Kaplan Bar Review will get you ready to take on test day with confidence by offering $100 off live and on-demand Bar Review with offer code Leslie100 . Visit kaplanbarreview.com today to sign up.

Lawrence Lessig on Campaign Finance Reform Mike talks with Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to his time at Harvard, Professor Lessig clerked for not one, but two of Mike's intellectual heroes, Judge Richard Posner and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Professor Lessig is the author of numerous books on law, commerce, culture, and ideas. His latest, Republic, Lost, Version 2.0, is a revised and expanded version of Republic, Lost, which Mike says is the best introduction to, and analysis of, not only campaign finance, but the fundamental incentives that drive public policy in the United States. Professor Lessig followed up on Republic, Lost with a major campaign to enact the reforms he believes to be vital to restoring American democracy, including launching a political action committee, giving a number of TED talks, and most notably, running for the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 2016. Professor Lessig Recommends Fifty Shades of Green: High Finance, Political Money, and the U.S. Congress. Thomas Ferguson, Jie Chen, Paul Jorgensen (http://bit.ly/2vCpW9P) Citizens Divided: Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution. Robert C. Post (http://amzn.to/2vCShx5) Unlock Congress. Michael Golden (http://amzn.to/2vCMB66) Follow Lawrence Lessig on Twitter (https://twitter.com/lessig) Interested in supporting the show and getting even more Politics Guys content? Check out our Insiders program at https://www.patreon.com/politicsguys This week’s show is sponsored by: Brooklinen, where listeners get $20 dollars off and free shipping by using promo code tpg at https://www.brooklinen.com Casper, where Politics Guys listeners get $50 dollars toward any mattress purchase by visiting https://www.casper.com/tpg Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It Author: Lawrence Lessig Narrator: Lawrence Lessig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 16, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig investigates the most vexing problem in American democracy: how money corrupts our nation's politics, and the critical campaign to stop it. In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission-trust in our government has reached an all-time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress, and that business interests wield control over our legislature. With heartfelt urgency and a keen desire for righting wrongs, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig takes a clear-eyed look at how we arrived at this crisis: how fundamentally good people, with good intentions, have allowed our democracy to be co-opted by outside interests, and how this exploitation has become entrenched in the system. Rejecting simple labels and reductive logic-and instead using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left-Lessig seeks out the root causes of our situation. He plumbs the issues of campaign financing and corporate lobbying, revealing the human faces and follies that have allowed corruption to take such a foothold in our system. He puts theissues in terms that nonwonks can understand, using real-world analogies and real human stories. And ultimately he calls for widespread mobilization and a new Constitutional Convention, presenting achievable solutions for regaining control of our corrupted-but redeemable-representational system. In this way, Lessig plots a roadmap for returning our republic to its intended greatness. While America may be divided, Lessig vividly champions the idea that we can succeed if we accept that corruption is our common enemy and that we must find a way to fight against it. In Republic Lost, he not only makes this need palpable and clear-he gives us the practical and intellectual tools to do something about it.

Harvard Law Professor and longtime political activist Lawrence Lessig wants to win the presidency of the United States to accomplish one critical objective: ending the corrupting influence of money on politics. With that done, he says he’ll step down and let someone else take over the Oval Office. It’s a radical notion, the single-issue presidential candidacy, but as he points out, only a radical solution can wrest back control of our democracy from the monied interests who have steadily come to dominate American political life. In this exclusive interview, Lessig and The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur discuss: - The Kickstarter campaign that will decide whether Lessig officially runs for president. - Why, even if one of them were to become president, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have no hope of eliminating money from politics. - Why the American people would get behind a one-issue candidacy to get money out of politics. - Why the Democratic party is as guilty as Republicans for the current corrupt system. - Whether Donald Trump’s candidacy is helpful or harmful to the cause of money in politics. - The Three Prongs of Political Corruption that a Citizen Equality Act would deal with. - Whether he would govern as president on other issues while trying to pass the Citizen Equality Act. - How the fight against money in politics is the Civil Rights issue of our time, and that now is when the American people need to come together in shared sacrifice to take back democracy. Find out more about Lawrence Lessig here: http://www.lessig.org Donate to the Lawrence Lessig for President Kickstarter here: https://lessigforpresident.com Follow him on Twitter: @Lessig Help Cenk pass an amendment to get money out of politics: www.wolf-pac.com Follow Cenk on Twitter: @CenkUygur Like this interview? Enough that you want to throw a little Bitcoin our way? Great! Do it here: https://www.coinbase.com/TYT Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you listen to a random episode of The Bryan Callen Show, you can bet that Bryan and I will be talking about how amazing Republic, Lost and its author Lawrence Lessig are. Well, we got him!!! Ladies and gentlemen, it is our extreme pleasure to present to you Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law Professor, advocate for internet freedom, campaign finance reformer and our choice for the next President of the United States. If you want to support fixing democracy first, then tweet at @joerogan to get him on the show or anywhere else you believe his message should be heard. Also tweet at major media outlets (@cnn, @abc...) to demand that they include Larry Lessig in the Presidential polls. Featured Link #1: https://lessig2016.us/ GUEST LINKS Website: https://lessig2016.us/ GUEST PROMOS Product 1: http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Corruption-Equality-Steps-ebook/dp/B00XUPPQOM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442859615&sr=8-1&keywords=republic+lost+lessig

Harvard Law Professor and longtime political activist Lawrence Lessig wants to win the presidency of the United States to accomplish one critical objective: ending the corrupting influence of money on politics. With that done, he says he’ll step down and let someone else take over the Oval Office. It’s a radical notion, the single-issue presidential candidacy, but as he points out, only a radical solution can wrest back control of our democracy from the monied interests who have steadily come to dominate American political life. In this exclusive interview, Lessig and The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur discuss: - The Kickstarter campaign that will decide whether Lessig officially runs for president. - Why, even if one of them were to become president, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have no hope of eliminating money from politics. - Why the American people would get behind a one-issue candidacy to get money out of politics. - Why the Democratic party is as guilty as Republicans for the current corrupt system. - Whether Donald Trump’s candidacy is helpful or harmful to the cause of money in politics. - The Three Prongs of Political Corruption that a Citizen Equality Act would deal with. - Whether he would govern as president on other issues while trying to pass the Citizen Equality Act. - How the fight against money in politics is the Civil Rights issue of our time, and that now is when the American people need to come together in shared sacrifice to take back democracy. Find out more about Lawrence Lessig here: http://www.lessig.org Donate to the Lawrence Lessig for President Kickstarter here: https://lessigforpresident.com Follow him on Twitter: @Lessig

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It Author: Lawrence Lessig Narrator: Lawrence Lessig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 5, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig investigates the most vexing problem in American democracy: how money corrupts our nation's politics, and the critical campaign to stop it. In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission-trust in our government has reached an all-time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress, and that business interests wield control over our legislature. With heartfelt urgency and a keen desire for righting wrongs, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig takes a clear-eyed look at how we arrived at this crisis: how fundamentally good people, with good intentions, have allowed our democracy to be co-opted by outside interests, and how this exploitation has become entrenched in the system. Rejecting simple labels and reductive logic-and instead using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left-Lessig seeks out the root causes of our situation. He plumbs the issues of campaign financing and corporate lobbying, revealing the human faces and follies that have allowed corruption to take such a foothold in our system. He puts theissues in terms that nonwonks can understand, using real-world analogies and real human stories. And ultimately he calls for widespread mobilization and a new Constitutional Convention, presenting achievable solutions for regaining control of our corrupted-but redeemable-representational system. In this way, Lessig plots a roadmap for returning our republic to its intended greatness. While America may be divided, Lessig vividly champions the idea that we can succeed if we accept that corruption is our common enemy and that we must find a way to fight against it. In Republic Lost, he not only makes this need palpable and clear-he gives us the practical and intellectual tools to do something about it.