This Friday at 6pm Alaska Time, author Jesse Wegman will join the Homer Public Library to discuss his book about the Electoral College. Click here to join the Zoom conversation.The book is available from the Homer Bookstore. [My February 2020 review] Never mind the elections of 2000 and 2016, I’ve disliked the whole notion of…
Today is the publication day of Jesse Wegman’s “Let the People Pick the President,” a history of the Electoral College and the case for abolishing it. I posted this review on my Facebook page and as I’d hoped it generated a brisk conversation from both sides. Click through the image of the book below to…
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So this is what I’ve been reading lately. (It doesn’t publish until March 17 but thanks to Kelley Ragland at Macmillan I scored an ARC.) I’ve hated the electoral college since learning about it in civics class in high school. It has always felt to me like such an abrogation of the ideal of “one…