Spirit Freed

Change Congress

Stanford Law Professor and founder of the Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig, is starting a new movement aimed at reducing corruption in politics. Lessig's contention is that the fundamental obstacle preventing political change is not a misunderstanding or disagreement over policy, but instead a lack of transparency and, therefore, accountability. Because campaigns are ...

‘I’ Before ‘We’ Except After ‘You’

By now, anybody and everybody not living on a remote planet is aware of what just happened in Iowa this past Thursday. In purely literal terms: Barack Obama won the Iowa Caucus. Barack Obama. What does that mean, exactly, aside from the literal meaning of it. Let's parse this for a second. Barack Obama. He is half black, his father is from Kenya, his mother from Kansas. He is a Junior Senator from Illinois. His father was a muslim and he lived a significant part of his life in Indonesia. No...