Legacy, Reform, and Comfort

... 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

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