Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig

Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig


Latest Episodes

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

S5E23: Lifeboats: Claudia Chwalisz
January 23, 2024

Claudia Chwalisz is a social entrepreneur, spreading the gospel of citizen assemblies. In this episode we talk to her about citizens assemblies' potential and how they are spreading across the world.

S5E22: Lifeboats: Kim Polese
January 19, 2024

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 transformative technologies (beginning with Java) has landed with a democracy enhancing AI, CrowdSmart. We talk

S5E21: Lifeboats: David Van Reybrouck
January 16, 2024

David Van Reybrouck's book, Against Elections, helped crystalize a movement for citizen assemblies. In my conversation with him, we talk about the origin of this idea, and how it could complement democracy.