Table of Contents
Introduction Lawrence Lessig 1
Free Culture
Introduction Benjamin Mako Hill Seth Schoen 7
Counterpoint: Downloading Isn't Stealing 11
UTI Interview with Aaron Swartz 13
Jefferson: Nature Wants to Be Free 23
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto 26
The Fruits of Mass Collaboration 28
The Techniques of Mass Collaboration: A Third Way Out 30
Wikimedia at the Crossroads 33
Who Writes Wikipedia? 36
Who Runs Wikipedia? 41
Making More Wikipedians 45
Making More Wikipedias 48
Code, and Other Laws of Wikipedia 51
False Outliers 54
(The Dandy Warhols) Come Down 56
Up with Facts: Finding the Truth in WikiCourt 58
Welcome, Watchdog.net 61
A Database of Folly 63
When is Transparency Useful? 67
How We Stopped SOPA 75
Computers Introduction David Auerbach 87
Excerpt: A Programmable Web 89
Privacy, Accuracy, Security: Pick Two 97
Fixing Compulsory Licensing 100
Postel's Law Has No Exceptions 104
Squaring the Triangle: Secure, Decentralized, Human-Readable Names 106
Release Late, Release Rarely 109
Bake, Don't Fry 111
Building Baked Sites 113
A Brief History of Ajax 115
DJB 118
A Non-Programmer's Apology 121
Politics
Introduction David Segal 129
How Congress Works 131
Keynes, Explained Briefly 172
Toward a Larger Left 179
Professional Politicians Beware! 184
The Attraction of the Center 189
The Conservative Nanny State 191
Political Entrepreneurs and Lunatics with Money 194
Postscript Henry Farrell 199
Media
Introduction Cory Doctorow 203
The Book That Changed My Life 205
The Invention of Objectivity 208
Shifting the Terms of Debate: How Big Business Covered Up Global Warming 210
Making Noise: How Right-wing Think Tanks Get the Word Out 213
Endorsing Racism: The Story of The Bell Curve 216
Spreading Lies: How Think Tanks Ignore the Facts 219
Saving Business: The Origins of Right-wing Think Tanks 221
Hurting Seniors: The Attack on Social Security 223
Fighting Back: Responses to the Mainstream Media 225
What Journalists Don't: Lessons from the Times 229
Rachel Carson: Mass Murderer? 234
Is Undercover Over? Disguise Seen as Deceit by Timid journalists 241
Books and Culture
Introduction James Grimmelmann 251
Recommended Books 253
Guest Review by Aaron Swartz: Chris Hayes' The Twilight of the Elites 265
Freakonomics 270
The Immorality of Freakonomics 273
In Offense of Classical Music 275
A Unified Theory of Magazines 277
On intellectual Dishonesty 279
The Smalltalk Question 281
Unschool
Introduction Astra Taylor 285
School 287
Welcome to Unschooling 321
School Rules 327
The Writings of John Holt 329
Apprentice Education 333
Intellectual Diversity at Stanford 335
David Horowitz on Academic Freedom 337
What It Means to Be an Intellectual 344
Getting It Wrong 347
Epilogue
Legacy 353
Contributor Bios 357
