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Republic, Lost (my favorite version)

Lawrence Lessig's 2011 Berkeley book talk based on Republic, Lost, arguing that money in politics creates institutional corruption in Congress. He calls it his favorite version of the talk.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN people point to it as a starting place for understanding how money corrupts American government.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
lessig
Topic
money in politics
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2011–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • I strongly encourage you to develop a (much) better understanding of what Lessig has been arguing. A good place to start is here: [VIDEO] Also worth noting: the problem you describe (corrupting influences on the economy originating in Washington, as opposed to private interests capturing …

    alexqgb on Hacker News · 2011-12
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  • Dear Internet, America has become a very strange place. At the same time our military was "bringing freedom to the Iraqi peoples", our legislature and executive conspired to remove or automate much judicial review of spying. In effect American citizens lost another type of liberty. …

    lifeguard on Hacker News · 2013-06
    In Ask HN: US this bad about civil liberties?

  • Because of institutional corruption. Lawrence Lessig has some great talks about this topic, here's one of them: [LINK] Here's another one: [VIDEO] (Lawrence Lessig, a law professor, was one of the founders of Creative Commons. He later tried to change US copyright laws to be …

    dbrgn on Hacker News · 2022-07
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