Mike talks with Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Professor Lessig co-founded Creative Commons in 2001 and is the author of numerous books, including Republic, Lost: Version 2.0 which he and Mike talked about on the podcast a few years ago (here’s a link to that interview). In this episode, they discuss about his recent book America, Compromised.

Topics covered include:

• why the Mafia isn’t corrupt, but Congress is
• raising the cost of corrupting Congress
• giving American citizens Democracy Vouchers
• why we should pay members of Congress a lot more
• good people in the bad institution of Congress
• corruption in the financial industry
• why no financial institution heads were prosecuted in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis
• corruption in political media
• and lots more!

Lawrence Lessig on Twitter

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