Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig
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Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig
Through interviews with politicians, journalists, activists, and the latest and greatest names in the fight to restore our democracy, the Another Way podcast explores the plans and policies for returning power to the people.
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S7E7: Continuing The Conversation
The latest (and penultimate) episode of Season 7, continuing the conversation with Ben Hepburn.
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S7E6: Pulling It All Together
Pulling it all together, Lessig asks his high school friend Ben Hepburn: How can you defend this? Listen to the conversation, and the common ground th...
S7E5: Strategy of Extortion
In this episode, Lessig and Hepburn discuss what Lessig has elsewhere described as Trumps strategy of extortion — illegal threats to force compliance...
S7E4: Tariffs
In this episode, Lessig and Hepburn discuss the tariffs. Is there some point at which MAGA supporters call uncle?
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S7E3: Ukraine, DOGE and RFK Jr.
Lessig's conversation with Ben Hepburn continues, this time about Ukraine, DOGE and RFKJr
S7E2: Continuing a Conversation with Ben Hepburn
In this second episode, Ben Hepburn and Lessig continue to see where we can find common ground in our understanding of the current administration. Are...
S7E1: Common Ground?
In this season, Lessig will have a conversation with Ben Hepburn, a friend from high school, whose politics is not Lessig's. The plan for the season i...
S6: Special Election Episode
On this episode (recorded before Tuesday's election), Lessig is joined by his colleagues Matthew A. Seligman (Stris & Maher), Ned Foley (Moritz Colleg...
S6E9: What Then?
In this episode, Lessig outlines what happens if Maine passes Question 1. What are the next steps, and the arguments that will get us to the Supreme C...
S6E8: The Campaign in Maine
On this episode, Lessig describes the campaign in Maine. The legislature chose to let the people decide whether to vote against SuperPACs in Maine — a...
S6E7: The Legislature Decides
On this episode, Lessig keeps the story going. We got the signatures. The next step was that the Maine legislature needed to decide whether it would p...
S6E6: The Race to Gather Signatures
On this episode, Lessig chronicles the next chapter in the story of the Maine initiative. We had an idea — based on FreeSpeechForPeople’s brilliant ar...
S6E5: The Origins of the Initiative
On this episode, Lessig details how we got to this initiative that could end Super PACs: FreeSpeechForPeople.org’s brilliant argument, and the decisio...
S6S4: The Fight to End SuperPACs and Originalism
On this episode, Lessig provides a brief history of the fight to end SuperPACs. Then, critically, he examines how the theory of the conservatives — or...
S6E3: The Money Problem
On this episode, Lessig asks: How is money a problem in a democracy, and how is it like the other problems we’re facing in our democracy?
S6E2: The Legal Background
On this episode, Lessig explains the legal background to the Maine initiative, from Citizens United to the case that gave us SuperPACs: SpeechNow v. F...
S6E1: The Maine Initiative That Could End SuperPACs
On this episode, Lessig introduces the upcoming Maine initiative that could end SuperPACs and lays out the plan for Season 6 of Another Way.
S5E27 - Conclusion: How AI Could Threaten Democracy (TedX)
For this final episode of Season 5, Lessig speaks to TedX Berlin about AI, democracy, and the future.
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S5E26: Lifeboats: Jon Stever
In 2020, in the middle of a pandemic, Jon Stever launched an extraordinary experiment to draw together a representative sample of the world to discuss...
S5E25: Lifeboats: David Farrell
Ireland has been perhaps the most impressive example of citizen assemblies addressing national issues in a new and edifying way. David Farrell is an a...
S5E24: Lifeboats: Katrín Oddsdóttir
Katrín Oddsdóttir is a founding mother of the still-not-ratified Iceland Constitution. In 2012, the people of Iceland told their Parliament to adopt a...
S5E23: Lifeboats: Claudia Chwalisz
Claudia Chwalisz is a social entrepreneur, spreading the gospel of citizen assemblies. In this episode we talk to her about citizens assemblies' poten...
S5E22: Lifeboats: Kim Polese
Not all AI is democracy ending AI. Some can support democracy and make it better. In this episode, I talk to Kim Polese, whose career launching transf...
S5E21: Lifeboats: David Van Reybrouck
David Van Reybrouck's book, Against Elections, helped crystalize a movement for citizen assemblies. In my conversation with him, we talk about the ori...
S5E20: Lifeboats: Chloe Maxim / Canyon Woodward
Chloe Maxim and Canyon Woodward built a people focused movement in rural Maine to change the way politics works. I talk to them about their book, Dirt...
S5E19: Lifeboats: Eli Pariser
Eli Pariser, Executive Director of MoveOn at 23, and founder of UpWorthy, talks to me about creating healthy online spaces, and democratic activism th...
S5E18: Lifeboats: Josh Greene
After hope, we need health. Josh Greene, professor of psychology at Harvard University and author of Moral Tribes talks to me about building healthier...
S5E17: Lifeboats: Jennifer Pahlka
Jennifer Pahlka, founder of the Code for America and former Deputy CTO, talks with me about improving digital governmental capacity, working from her...
S5E16: Lifeboats: Brink Lindsey
Our first lifeboat is hope — hope that government could actually do good. Brink Lindsey, formerly of the Cato Institute, and now Director of the Open...
S5E15: Lifeboats: Intro
We can make our unrepresentative representative democracy representative. But AI may mean that's not enough. This episode introduces the final section...
S5E14: Gashed Hull: AI: Tristan Harris
AI has already affected our society fundamentally. That effect first happened through social media. In this episode, we speak with Tristan Harris, co-...
S5E13: Gashed Hull: Media: Ben Smith
What happens when news must compete? How does that affect the news? In this episode, we talk to Ben Smith, a journalist and entrepreneur who played a...
S5E12: Gashed Hull: Social Media: Jonathan Haidt
No technology in the last two generations has more affected ordinary life and ordinary politics more profoundly than social media. In this episode, we...
S5E11: Gashed Hull: Broadcast Democracy: Markus Prior
What was media like? How has media changed? In this episode, we talk to Princeton Professor Markus Prior about the architecture of public media, over...
S5E10: Gashed Hull: A Rational Public: Ben Page and Robert Shapiro
There was a time when the presumption of democracy — that the people were rational and guided our democracy to reasoned conclusions — was true. Or tru...
S5E09: Gashed Hull: Intro
The premise of the first part to this season is that our broken democracy can be fixed. The solutions are clear and achievable. Many of them would be...
S5E08: Overturned Tables: The Senate: Marty Paone
The obscure rules of the Senate are an important part of the dysfunction of American democracy today. In this episode, we speak to a former Secretary...
S5E07: Overturned Tables: Primaries: Nick Troiano
Just 8% of voters elect 83% of the House: This is the fact standing behind the reform proposed by Nick Troiano in his book, The Primary Solution, whic...
S5E06: Overturned Tables: Representativeness: Nick Stephanopoulos
Democracy reform needs a target. We can say things like "representative democracy must be representative," but what does that exactly mean? In this ep...
S5E05: Overturned Tables: Vouchers: Jen Heerwig
Even great ideas need to be studied and understood scientifically. Jennifer Heerwig has done more than anyone studying the effects of the voucher expe...