Christopher Hayes , wrote a piece in a recent issue of The Nation highlighting Change Congress founder Lawrence Lessig and his move from intellectual copyright to political corruption. It's a great piece showing Lessig's own political evolution and how Change Congress (C-C) came to be.

In the article, Lessig lays out the problems with the current system as well as explains some of his vision for how C-C can have an impact right away. He also talks about the ever-narrowing gap between business and government and Change Congress' core mission.

In fighting this corporate socialism, Lessig thinks there are allies to be found among the "intellectually honest" right. He points out that the need to raise money from industry provides an incentive to grow government and maintain regulation as a kind of leverage to extract donations from industry. He's made battling earmarks, a conservative cause célèbre, a Change Congress core mission; the first member of Congress to endorse Change Congress was Jim Cooper, a conservative blue-dog Democrat who is eyed suspiciously by the party's activist base. Lessig's touchstone in his conservative outreach is his father, who struggled every year to meet his company's pension obligations, only to learn years later that big companies like Bethlehem Steel had an exemption in the law so they didn't have to meet the same standards. "Now, from my modern political perspective, that's exactly the thing I think is most outrageous about how the government functions," says Lessig. "And from my dad's perspective, that's the most absurd thing about how government functions."