Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig

Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig


Latest Episodes

S6E6: The Race to Gather Signatures
September 20, 2024

On this episode, Lessig chronicles the next chapter in the story of the Maine initiative. We had an idea based on FreeSpeechForPeoples brilliant argument for an initiative. And Mainers were excit

S6E5: The Origins of the Initiative
September 19, 2024

On this episode, Lessig details how we got to this initiative that could end Super PACs: FreeSpeechForPeople.orgs brilliant argument, and the decision to take that argument into the field and win!

S6S4: The Fight to End SuperPACs and Originalism
September 11, 2024

On this episode, Lessig provides a brief history of the fight to end SuperPACs. Then, critically, he examines how the theory of the conservatives originalism supports our argument against SuperPAC

S6E3: The Money Problem
September 09, 2024

On this episode, Lessig asks: How is money a problem in a democracy, and how is it like the other problems were facing in our democracy?

S6E2: The Legal Background
September 05, 2024

On this episode, Lessig explains the legal background to the Maine initiative, from Citizens United to the case that gave us SuperPACs: SpeechNow v. FEC (2010).

S6E1: The Maine Initiative That Could End SuperPACs
August 29, 2024

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)
August 22, 2024

For this final episode of Season 5, Lessig speaks to TedX Berlin about AI, democracy, and the future.You can watch a video recording of this TedX talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zYHqg1Pw

S5E26: Lifeboats: Jon Stever
February 20, 2024

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 the climate and ecological crisis the world is facing. In this conversation, I talk to him about how he

S5E25: Lifeboats: David Farrell
January 30, 2024

Ireland has been perhaps the most impressive example of citizen assemblies addressing national issues in a new and edifying way. David Farrell is an academic who has studied the Irish example. I talk with him about what Ireland can teach the rest of the w

S5E24: Lifeboats: Katrín Oddsdóttir
January 26, 2024

Katrn Oddsdttir is a founding mother of the still-not-ratified Iceland Constitution. In 2012, the people of Iceland told their Parliament to adopt a constitution based on the draft that she and 24 other Icelanders crafted. They had crafted their draft b