Prof. Lindsey (Lindsay) Cormack
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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If we want to keep liberty, we're going to have to have some way of figuring out how we navigate those differences of opinion instead of saying no liberty for anyone.
And I'm your professor, Lindsay Cormack.
Well, I guess.
I'm equally nerdy.
I'm Lindsay Cormack.
I have a PhD in government from NYU.
And I'd say I'm best known for a little database that I've been running since 2010 called DC Inbox, which is every email that every member of Congress sends in their official capacity to their constituents' e-newsletters.
But more recently, I wrote a book called How to Raise a Citizen and Why It's Up to You to Do It.
And I'm at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Well, I think in a time in which everyone's hearing that government sucks and everything's bad and it's just going to get worse, we are offering a little bit of a different way to approach this sort of subject.
The way I come at it is government's going to happen to us whether we like it or not.
Politics is going to happen to us whether we like it or not.
But we are way better to navigate it and bend the ends to our will if we understand what's happening.
And so part of that is just figuring out the rules.
But another part of that is looking back on when government has worked in the past and kind of seeing, ooh, how can we get something that feels functional, that we like the outcome of, by looking at how we've done it before?
I'm very happy to be doing this with you as well.
And I think there is something truly worth celebrating as we get to the 250th Declaration of Independence birthday.
And I kind of think about this not so much as cheerleading for the United States government, but as a way to reflect on when it gets things right and celebrating them.
When we think about the stories that our children hear that we see on the media, it's usually when something goes wrong, when there's a failure, when there's something that shouldn't have happened.
But there's so many things that we get right and we just don't focus on those stories.
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