The Lawfare Podcast: Lawfare is Dead! Long Live Lawfare

Benjamin Wittes
Saturday, June 6, 2015, 1:30 PM

As I announced on Friday, the Lawfare site on I am typing these words will, less than 48 hours from now, be a thing of the past. The site has given yeoman's service. But as they say in Ecclesiastes, there's a time to die, and this site's time has come. Lawfare's readers need a site that can support that remarkably diverse ways in which people use the site. They need an architecture they can navigate---and that they can rely upon.

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As I announced on Friday, the Lawfare site on I am typing these words will, less than 48 hours from now, be a thing of the past. The site has given yeoman's service. But as they say in Ecclesiastes, there's a time to die, and this site's time has come. Lawfare's readers need a site that can support that remarkably diverse ways in which people use the site. They need an architecture they can navigate---and that they can rely upon. And they need a site that isn't managed on a technical level, not even a little bit, by me.

On Thursday, Shane Harris came to Brookings to guest host the Lawfare Podcast. The guest? Your's truly. The subject? Lawfare's transition to its new site, and the institutional development of the site that has led us to this point. It's actually not an infomercial but---I think, anyway---an interesting discussion of the history of the site and how it grew.


Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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