New material for the 2016 election!

Within an era when special interests funnel large sums of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels with the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal government Election Commission-trust inside our government has reached an all-time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress, which business interests wield control over our legislature.

With heartfelt urgency and an enthusiastic desire to have about Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to avoid It righting wrongs, Harvard legislation professor Lawrence Lessig takes a clear-eyed take a look at how we attained this crisis: how fundamentally good people, with good motives, have allowed our democracy to be co-opted by outside interests, and exactly how this exploitation has become entrenched in the system. Rejecting simple brands and reductive logic-and instead using illustrations that resonate as powerfully on the Right as for the Left-Lessig looks for out the main factors behind our situation. He plumbs the issues of campaign financing and commercial lobbying, uncovering the human faces and follies that have allowed corruption to consider such a foothold inside our program. He puts the issues in conditions that nonwonks can understand, using real-world analogies and real human stories. And eventually he calls for common mobilization and a fresh Constitutional Convention, presenting attainable solutions for regaining control of our corrupted-but redeemable-representational system. In this manner, Lessig plots a roadmap for coming back our republic to its intended greatness.

While America could be divided, Lessig vividly champions the idea that we can succeed if we accept that corruption is our common foe and that we must find a way to fight against it. In REPUBLIC, LOST, he not merely makes this need palpable and clear-he provides us the practical and intellectual equipment to accomplish something about any of it.