Author Archives: Lessig

Why doesn't T-Mobile work at ORD?

So useless customer support forces me to this public place to ask this not-quite-public question: Why doesn’t T-Mobile work at ORD?  <BEGIN quasi-geeky-tech-question> Since upgrading to OS X 10.7.3, logging onto wifi networks has been much more difficult. At ORD, … Continue reading

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Republic, Lost: Errors, small?

Republic, Lost is going into paperback this fall. I’ve been grateful to all who have sent corrections. I’d be grateful for other errors flagged below. Unfortunately this can’t be a rewrite, so even if I should chuck it all and … Continue reading

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SopaTrack: thoughts

Every so often, a beautifully clear and crystalizing innovation happens. Sopatrack feels like one of these. Is it right? Is it true? Is it fair? Those are three distinct questions. I’d be grateful for thoughts about the site. 

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worth it

There are moments when  all this seems worth it.  Few.  Fewer the fewer days I get with my kids. But some.  Today was one.  A guy in a military cap, out of place in an auditorium of law students and … Continue reading

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On the absurd pandering in the Anti-Hilary-Rosen Campaign

Here’s what we know: Our society has not yet achieved sex equality.  Women suffer that inequality differently.  So: In an unscripted television talk show appearance, Hilary Rosen referred to that differently-experienced inequality. She said that Ann Romney has “never worked … Continue reading

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The Democratic party is now facing a great crisis. It is to decide whether it will be, as in the days of FDR, the party of the plain people, the party of progress, the party of social and industrial justice; … Continue reading

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The Democratic party is now facing a great crisis. It is to decide whether it will be, as in the days of FDR, the party of the plain people, the party of progress, the party of social and industrial justice; or whether it will be the party of privilege and of special interests, the heir to those who were FDR’s most bitter opponents, the party that represents the great interests within and without Wall Street which desire through their control over the servants of the public to be kept immune from punishment when they do wrong and to be given privileges to which they are not entitled.

The Democratic party is now facing a great crisis. It is to decide whether it will be, as in the days of FDR, the party of the plain people, the party of progress, the party of social and industrial justice; … Continue reading

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The Republican party is now facing a great crisis. It is to decide whether it will be, as in the days of Lincoln, the party of the plain people, the party of progress, the party of social and industrial justice; or whether it will be the party of privilege and of special interests, the heir to those who were Lincoln’s most bitter opponents, the party that represents the great interests within and without Wall Street which desire through their control over the servants of the public to be kept immune from punishment when they do wrong and to be given privileges to which they are not entitled.

The Republican party is now facing a great crisis. It is to decide whether it will be, as in the days of Lincoln, the party of the plain people, the party of progress, the party of social and industrial justice; … Continue reading

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So what exactly is this internet scam about?

Can someone help me understand what this is about?  I joined a forum in order to respond to a comment. Immediately after I joined, I began to receive literally hundreds of emails from other fora I hadn’t joined, each sending … Continue reading

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The Economist Weighs In

Anonymous at the Economist (because everyone at the Economist is anonymous) has weighed into the debate between Ezra and me with an important question, and an incomplete answer. They [allow me this grammatical mistake so I don’t have to say … Continue reading

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