Glenn Reynolds on Politics, the Constitution, and Technology

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🗓️ 18 February 2013

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Glenn Reynolds of the University of Tennessee and blogger at Instapundit talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political malaise in America, whether it could lead to a Constitutional Convention, and what might emerge were such an event to occur. Reynolds also gives his thoughts on the suggestion advanced in a recent episode of EconTalk that we should ignore the Constitution. The conversation concludes with Reynolds's views on the decentralizing power of technology and Reynolds's music career.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:11.0	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find links
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0:23.3	back to 2006.
0:25.4	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:27.9	We'd love to hear from you.
0:32.9	Today is February 13th, 2013, and my guest is Glenn Reynolds.
0:38.2	The Boatchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee, he blogs
0:42.7	at Instapundit.com, and among other books, he is the author of an Army of David's Glenn
0:48.0	Welcome to Econ Talk.
0:49.0	All right, great to be here.
0:51.5	I expect we'll talk about a variety of subjects today, but I want to start with a recent
0:55.0	piece you wrote for USA Today, a Revolution in the Works.
0:58.2	There's a question mark at the end of that title, a Revolution in the Works, but you're
1:02.9	suggesting the possibility of fundamental political change in the United States.
1:07.8	What kind of change are you imagining and what evidence do you see for that change?
1:12.1	Well, you know, in the word defund solar, I don't know, I can imagine an awful lot.
1:17.8	What triggered the column is a poll from the Pew people, which showed that more than half
1:24.4	of Americans view the government as a threat to their freedom.
1:28.9	And what's especially interesting about the Pew poll is that it's not just, you know,
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