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Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig: Neo-Progressives

Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics

It seems that just about every hundred years or so, the body politic we call America swells with fever as it fights off a democracy-destroying disease. That disease is "Special Interest Government," a government captured by the economically powerful in society, as they find a way to convert economic into political power; the fever comes from the reform movement, keen to kill that disease and restore an ideal of government of, by, and for "the People." This time around, that breakaway, trans-party reform movement will carry the banner of Neo-Progressivism.

 

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