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Lessig

@lessig

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active: 2020-04-05 → 2026-06-09

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On why Anthropic is “radical woke” while OpenAI is not: What “business as usual” means in SuperPACs…

Remember the core logic that launched American democracy on the catastrophic experiment called SuperPACs.

Mar 01, 2026 · 9 min read · 1,518 claps paywalled #anthropics #super-pacs #corruption

On why Anthropic is “radical woke” while OpenAI is not: What “business as usual” means in SuperPACs…

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Lessig v. NYT: Very. Good. News.

Last week, the New York Times revised a headline, changed a lede, and acknowledged the misimpression — they call it an imprecision—in an…

Apr 05, 2020 · 8 min read · 1,218 claps #clickbait-defamation #lessig

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Claude’s attempt to explain why SuperPACs are doomed

Many of us have spent many years trying to get the legal system to understand why SuperPACs are not compelled by the First Amendment. Most…

Apr 04, 2026 · 8 min read · 1,017 claps paywalled #super-pacs #speechnow

Claude’s attempt to explain why SuperPACs are doomed

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This will end: Where will they be then?

In the late spring of 1940, the German army broke through French lines, and the government in Paris collapsed. In its place arose a regime…

Apr 12, 2026 · 5 min read · 950 claps paywalled #cowards #republicans

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On the many layers of our corruption

I was recently asked to address the Democratic Policy Conference of the Senate. I can’t help but think I failed in that task. The topic for…

May 13, 2026 · 25 min read · 938 claps paywalled #corruption #democrats

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The Acts That Save America

It is endlessly easy to whip ourselves into a fury. Because so few imagined it would be this bad. The second Trump administration has been…

Mar 27, 2026 · 6 min read · 517 claps paywalled #2026 #donald-trump #midterms

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The Five Books That Could Save America

I’ve long been skeptical that we, as a people, can recover from the catastrophe we now face. Most think that catastrophe is Donald Trump. I…

Jun 07, 2026 · 16 min read · 307 claps paywalled #vetocracy #citizen-assemblies #abundance

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Bested by a machine

For almost a year now, I’ve been unpacking the story of Harvard’s decision to remove the tenure of HBS professor Francesca Gino in a…

May 23, 2026 · 3 min read · 280 claps paywalled #francesca-gino #harvard

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Is AI bad for lawyers, but great for the law?

On June 5, 1906, perhaps America’s then-most famous musician, John Philip Sousa, climbed the steps of the Library of Congress to attack…

Jun 09, 2026 · 6 min read · 193 claps paywalled #ai-and-the-law

Is AI bad for lawyers, but great for the law?

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Lessig v. NYT: Withdrawn

Today I’m withdrawing my lawsuit against the Times, after they corrected their story online. What follows is the thinking behind that…

Apr 13, 2020 · 5 min read · 178 claps #lessig #clickbait #nytimes

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Review: The AI Doc

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (trailer), a new film by Daniel Roher, the Oscar-winning director of Navalny, opened this…

Mar 29, 2026 · 12 min read · 151 claps paywalled #the-ai-doc #ai

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On Francesca Gino

The click machine of modern media can’t resist the story of an HBS professor who studies dishonesty now being charged with falsifying the…

Aug 18, 2023 · 3 min read · 137 claps #francesca-gino #harvard-business-school #ben-edelman

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They Don’t Represent Us, updated

An updated, paperback version of my latest book, They Don’t Represent Us, is to be released today. Here’s a couple sentences about why it…

Apr 27, 2021 · 3 min read · 107 claps #lessig #democracy #for-the-people

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The LLM Council’s attempt to explain why SuperPACs are doomed

The LLM Council is a a super cool implementation of deliberation among LLMs. The Council will pose a question and pass it among LLMs and…

Apr 04, 2026 · 9 min read · 102 claps paywalled #super-pacs #llm-council

The LLM Council’s attempt to explain why SuperPACs are doomed

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On Data Colada

Three days ago, I wrote an essay about the accusations raised against Francesca Gino. Based on my judgment about who Francesca is, and…

Aug 22, 2023 · 2 min read · 89 claps #data-colada #francesca-gino #bh

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True but misleading: The New Yorker quote I should have quibbled with.

Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s article mainly about Dan Ariely includes an accurate quote of something I said. The fact checkers had asked me to…

Oct 01, 2023 · 1 min read · 31 claps #francesca-gino

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The Law, such as it is: Season 2

I’ve launched a second season of the podcast, The Law, such as it is. This podcast had been launched originally for other purposes. Quick…

Aug 24, 2021 · 1 min read · 8 claps #lessig #the-law-such-as-it-is