Lawrence Lessig Interviews Robert Kaiser

Speaker: Lawrence Lessig, Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics; Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School and Robert G. Kaiser, Associate Editor and Senior Correspondent, The Washington Post

Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, will interview Robert Kaiser, associate editor and senior correspondent at the Washington Post, about his two great books, So Much Damn Money (2009) and An Act of Congress (2013). So Much Damn Money is a depressing story about the incredible rise in the importance of money in Congress, while An Act of Congress is a much more optimistic account of Congress passing Dodd-Frank. How can both books be true? What does each tells us about the other? And what do both tell us about the possibility of sane or functioning government anytime soon?