Can America’s descent into Plutocracy (Rule-by-the-Rich) be Reversed?

Juan Cole 04/27/2014

Lawrence Lessig Has a “Moonshot” Plan to Halt Our Slide Toward Plutocracy (via Moyers & Company)

Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig, the crusader for campaign finance reform, feels that his fellow reformers don’t think big or boldly enough to inspire the kind of grassroots campaign that might break elite donors’ stranglehold on America’s political…

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and an adjunct professor, Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page