Depose
Who gets to draw the boundary around a crime scene?
Depose: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution makes a new kind of case for why the healthcare system in America is itself a crime.
Connecting the dots between the rise of for-profit health insurance and the nearly 15 million “excess deaths” in America that coincided with it, the authors track the opponents of universal healthcare back to their sources. There, they discover a little-known coverup that has shaped the law itself: the forced disappearance of our natural right to health. Reclaiming that right changes how we understand our history — and reveals what remains unfinished in the American Revolution.
Written by the December 4 Legal Committee, the anonymous collective behind the fund that raised more than $1.5 million for Luigi Mangione’s legal defense, Depose takes the American healthcare debate onto the terrain of the fundamental political questions facing all of us today.
"Depose is among the first to imagine — and to defend — the revolution to restore well-being to the body politic for the times to come. We the people are the jury: the decision is ours."
— Peter Linebaugh, author of The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All
Depose: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution
By The December 4 Legal Committee
Release date: October 13, 2026
Ill Will Editions | 360pp.
ISBN: 979-8-9997930-7-2
Cover Art by Dianna Settles
100% of all author royalties are donated to grassroots healthcare initiatives and Luigi Mangione's official legal fund until he is free.
Published by Ill Will Editions
Distributed by The MIT Press