Jul 31, 2025

We discuss how certain radical acts of justice by everyday people challenge the legitimacy of the criminal system and form the underpinning of a new collective legal thought, demosprudence. Collective understanding of justice and safety is changing away from the concept that justice equals cages. 

Jocelyn’s civic...

Jul 24, 2025

We discuss deliberative polling as a way to assess the will of the people and then to make it consequential. This is what democracy is all about. 

James’s civic action toolkit recommendations are: 

1) Question your own beliefs and assumptions

2) Learn to listen to people whom you would not normally talk to

James...

Jul 17, 2025

We discuss the main goals of copaganda: narrowing our conception of safety and threat, constantly warning us that those harms are increasing, and telling us that the solution to our fears is more investment in the punishment bureaucracy.

Alec’s civic action toolkit recommendations are: 

1) Educate yourself on...

Jul 10, 2025

We discuss how multisolving is a way to address the multiple issues that are currently facing our democracy at the same time, ranging from pollution and sustainable energy to civil rights and collective governance.

Elizabeth’s civic action toolkit recommendations are: 

1) Learn about multisolving

2) Learn together...

Jul 3, 2025

We discuss Inclusive Constitutionalism, a fresh way to interpret the Constitution that makes inclusive democracy real. By contrast, originalism interprets the meaning of the Constitution as fixed in time in the 1800s and ignores the constitutional amendments during reconstruction that were designed to foster...