Geoghegan is my hero

There was a fantastic interview with Thomas Geoghegan, a Chicago-based lefty lawyer, on the local radio station WBEZ this morning. What was so great is that Geoghegan is able to boil down what is wrong with this country in a ten minute interview. I implore you to give it a listen: here

He talks about the deregulation of the credit card industry, and its effect on our debt-ridden society, linking it with increased litigation. He also breaks down how the U.S. is not a direct democracy, and hence we are very unlike other countries because we do not have one person, one vote. He actually puts current issues into context (!) and he's written several books: Which Side Are You On? Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back, and his latest: See You in Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation.

He's smart, well-spoken, and he connects today's problems with policy decisions made in the past and with weaknesses inherent in our government's structure, he helps to alleviate our collective amnesia, and for these reasons he makes me happy.