?There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are.? So begins Lawrence Lessig's sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it?from the selling of Congress to special interests to the corporate capture of the academy. Something is wrong. It?s getting worse. And it?s our fault. What Lessig shows, brilliantly and persuasively, is that we can?t blame the problems of contemporary American life on bad people, as our discourse all too often tends to do. Rather, he explains, ?We have allowed core institutions of America?s economic, social, and political life to become corrupted. Not by evil souls, but by good souls. Not through crime, but through compromise.? Every one of us, every day, making the modest compromises that seem necessary to keep moving along, is contributing to the rot...
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