# Philip Howard - How to Bring Common Sense Back to America (Ep. 324)

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Podcast: [Infinite Loops](https://stenobird.com/podcast/infinite-loops-259760)
Published: 2026-07-23T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://infiniteloopspodcast.com/324
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Duration seconds: 4566

## Resource

Philip Howard joins Infinite Loops to explain how America's legal and regulatory system became too complicated to function effectively—and how we can rebuild it around judgment, accountability, and human agency. We discuss why government has become unmanageable, how thousand-page rulebooks discourage individual judgment, why infrastructure projects can take decades to approve, and how public institutions end up costing more while delivering less.

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