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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: George Hammond: A Slightly Better Future
Description: Monday Night Philosophy focuses tonight on the political philosophical principles generated by George Hammond’s “Life is an Eternal Democracy” theory. His latest book, A Slightly Better Future: Short Term Fixes for America, Long Term Fixes for Democracy, details many incremental institutional improvements that could make democracies far more effective in the future. His ideas, based upon what we should have learned over the last 250 years, include a thoroughly revised democratic constitution, significantly redesigned political institutions, and several new forms of institutional checks and balances.
Fortunately, even amidst the current dismaying destruction of valued political norms, there remains...