Money Corrupts The Process Of Reasoning.

Law And Technology Produce, Together, A Kind Of Regulation Of Creativity We've Not Seen Before.

Power Runs With Ideas That Only The Crazy Would Draw Into Doubt.

If The Internet Teaches Us Anything, It Is That Great Value Comes From Leaving Core Resources In A Commons, Where They're Free For People To Build Upon As They See Fit.

The Electoral College Is A Project That Calls On Their Judgment. If We Don't Like It, We Can Talk About How To Eliminate It. I'm Not Quite Convinced We Should Eliminate It Completely. I Think It's Important To Have A Final Check Be Somebody Other Than The Supreme Court. But Given That It's There, We Should Take It Seriously. And Taking It Seriously Says They Should Exercise Their Judgment According To The Moral Values, The Principles That Are Part Of Our Constitutional Tradition Today. And Those Principles Say Equality.

I Find Focusing Clearly On The Problem Is The First Step To Seeing A Solution. The Problem Is (a) The Insane Amount Of Time Spent Raising Money From (b) A Freakishly Tiny Proportion Of America. Basically .05% Are The "relevant Funders" Of Campaigns, Meaning Candidates Can't Help But Be Overly Sensitive To The Views Of That Tiny Fraction Relative To The Rest Of Us. If That's The Problem, Then The Solution Is To Spread The Funders Out: To Increase The Range Of Us Who Are The Relevant Funders Of Elections, Through Schemes Like Vouchers Or Coupons Given To Every Voter.