February 2012
4 posts
On reading books in the eReader era
UPDATE #2: (Wonderfully) Byliner has decided to remove DRM from the book. If you get it after tomorrow, it should be DRM free.
UPDATE: A print on demand version of the book will be available Monday. Thanks to Byliner for working quickly with Blurb to make this happen.
My book, One Way Forward: The Outsiders Guide to Fixing the Republic, was published Tuesday by Byliner. The book is an ebook. I...
"Money is not speech"
I’m a critic of Citizens United. I’m a supporter of an amendment to reverse it (among other things). I’m even (sort of) a supporter of an amendment to declare “corporations are not persons.” But I am not a supporter of any amendment that purports to declare “Money is not speech.”
My former dean, Geof Stone, explains why in this piece in the Huffington...
"Campaign Contributions buy results in Congress"
I’ve referred a number of times to a survey that the Global Strategy Group did for us last year about the public’s perception of the role of money in politics. Seventy-five percent affirm that “campaign contributions buy results in Congress.” Here are the highlights of that survey. Here are the crosstabs.
The Article in Handelsblatt
I wrote a short reply piece to an essay by the German politician Ansgar Heveling about the SOPA/PIPA war. I hadn’t realized they would translate the piece. Here is the original.
The original version of this referred to Heveling as a “minister.” That was a misunderstanding of mine about the convention for referring to a member of the Parliament. Turns out that misunderstanding...