Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig
By Lawrence Lessig
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Description
Can we make 2020 something more than a civil war between Democrats and Republicans? That’s the challenge that has inspired this podcast by Lawrence Lessig. Without doubting the urgent need to defeat our current President, Lessig lays out a strategy that leverages the common ground that unites America, to the end of fixing our rigged and broken democracy. Drawing upon the history of other moments of fundamental change in America, Lessig maps a strategy that steps above our partisan divide. It is a moonshot, no doubt. But it is the one shot that could get us beyond the pathological division that destroys our government today. This is the conversation that the politicians won’t give us. And that’s precisely why we citizens must begin it now.
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CleanIntroducing: Another Way | Anyone paying attention can see that we’re gearing up for a train wreck in 2020, as both political parties map out an increasingly partisan choice for America — as if we are just a nation divided, with nothing that we share in common. | 10/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanS1E1: Aiming for Something Different | It’s pretty clear how things are going to happen. In January, whatever the outcome in the 2018 election, Democrats are going to begin to vie in earnest to become the party’s nominee for President. There’ll be a gaggle of normal politicians on the left and in the middle, and a handful of billionaires. | 10/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanS1E2: How Different Has Been Done | There have been critical moments in the history of America when we have come to see that something more than ordinary politics was necessary. Moments when citizens understood that the existing machinery of government was just not up to the task — and when the politicians did something fundamental to fix it. | 10/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanS1E3: A Different (Kind of Control of) Congress | In the middle of 2016, the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation conducted a massive survey to measure America’s satisfaction with their government. Surprise! Surprise! Not many Americans were very satisfied. Much more surprising was this: the reasons that Americans gave for their dissatisfaction were almost universally the same — regardless of age or sex or geography or, most amazingly, political party. | 10/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanS1E4: A Different Kind of President | In 1864, in the middle of our “great Civil War,” America held a presidential election. Lincoln was President. None were confident, especially his supporters, that he would be re-elected. Indeed without the gift of a Grant victory at Petersburg, it’s pretty clear he would not have been reelected. The nation was exhausted by war. Most Americans were resolved to peace at any price. | 10/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanS1E5: How America Beats Donald | I think the answer’s pretty obvious: we would win by stealing Donald Trump’s words while changing their meaning. The campaign to defeat President Trump and to reform this democracy must be led by candidates who make two simple promises: first, drain the swamp; second, make America great again. | 11/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanS1E6: Why Different When the Same Is So So Easy | “But why,” the Democratic politicians will insist, “why do we need anything more than simply elect Democrats? What’s the need for a Reform Caucus when the Democratic Party is already committed to a platform of reform? Why complicate what could be so simple: a Democratic President with a Democratic Congress committed to passing the changes that reform obviously requires?” | 11/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIntroducing Season 2 | There’s a scholar, an activist, a leader, a former Labor Secretary, a citizen, and a friend — Robert Reich — who has been trash-talking the idea of a convention to propose amendments to our Constitution. That fact really bothers me. | 12/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanS2E1: How Constitutions Get Changed | The Constitution of the United States specifies the rules for its own amendment. Article V lays out those rules. An amendment must first be proposed and once proposed, adopted or, as the Constitution says, ratified. More than 11,000 amendments have been proposed in the 230 years since the Constitution was adopted. Of those, 27 have been ratified. | 12/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanS2E2: That Conventions Terrify | This is Larry Lessig, and this is Episode 2 of Season 2 of the podcast Another Way. In the first episode, I described two ways that the Constitution allows that amendments to the Constitution might be proposed. Only one of those two ways of proposing amendments has ever succeeded. The second way — “a convention”—has never happened, though we’ve gotten close. That second way terrifies people like Robert Reich. In this episode, I describe why. | 12/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanS2E3: Why Conventions Terrify | “This would be chaos.” An Article V convention would be “chaos.” Or so says the great Robert Reich in the video that has triggered this season of Another Way. | 12/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanS2E4: Why Conventions Should NOT Terrify | So do we really need an Article V Convention? This should be the only real question that should trouble Americans just now. Do we need a different way to propose amendments to the Constitution? Do we need amendments to our Constitution at all? | 12/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanS2E5: Why We Need A Convention | There’s going to be a train wreck unless we act now. A train wreck for the convention movement, and hence, a train wreck for the only reasonable chance that we have to fix our broken Constitution, and hence, a train wreck for this nation. | 1/2/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Most Important Podcast Out There
If you are an American living in today's political climate, YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST. So much time is spent complaining these days without solution. Lessig dives into the core of what the problems are not the symptoms and offers a step by step method for fixing our democracy.
With (a lot of) Hope
I downloaded both seasons and walked around with them on my phone for a bit before listening -- putting off listening to what I knew would be an intelligent, and insightful discussion, albeit on the depressing state of our country. I finally dove in and was partly wrong. It wasn't depressing at all. The subject matter is critical and Professor Lessig discusses it with learned insight, reasoned perspective and humility. There are no easy answers, but each episode (brief but packed with thought-provoking information) offer real world recommendations on what we can all do. It definitly gives you something to ponder (and act upon). I found it inspiring, and am now a bit more hopeful. Listen, share, support.
Disappointed
I was definitely hoping to hear something a little deeper. I hope he creates a more thorough podcast in the future because this is just 10 minute spaces of obvious nonsense. I am very disappointed. He says what is obvious everyone and nothing else.
