Free Court 14 - Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government with Philip K Howard
Free Court Show with Jason Hartman
English - January 05, 2017 04:04 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MB - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsBusiness Technology court dispute law realestate affordable arbitration avvo businessformation contracts familylaw Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Philip K. Howard is an attorney who is the Founder and Chair of Common Good, and author of the classic, “The Death of Common Sense” and the new book, “The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government.”
Jason Hartman and Philip discuss whether people should trust the government, and Philip shares his thoughts on how the government has made people inept. The two of them also delve into how life would be without lawyers.
Philip K. Howard is a well-known leader of government and legal reform in America. His new book, The Rule of Nobody (W. W. Norton & Company, April 2014), has been praised by Fareed Zakaria as “an utterly compelling and persuasive book that, if followed, could change the way America works.” His Ted Talk has has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
His other books include the best-seller The Death of Common Sense (Random House, 1995), The Collapse of the Common Good (Ballantine Books, 2002), and Life Without Lawyers (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009).
Philip formed Common Good, a nonpartisan national coalition dedicated to restoring common sense in America, in 2002. He also sometimes writes for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, and has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the News Hour, Today, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose, and numerous other programs.
Philip is a civic leader in New York City, and has spent close to two decades advising national political leaders on legal and regulatory reform. His clients have included Vice President Al Gore and numerous governors.
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