Never mind the elections of 2000 and 2016, I’ve disliked the whole notion of the Electoral College since learning about it in civics class in high school. In his book, Let the People Pick the President, Jesse Wegman writes …the Electoral College…too violates the core democratic principles of political equality and majority rule. We may all…
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…
[from my February 2020 Goodreads review] 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 man, one vote.” In his book, Let the People Pick the President, Jesse Wegman writes …the Electoral College…too violates the…
I don’t think the Founding Fathers were unconscious of their own hypocrisy. I think they wrote the Constitution in the spirit of “Don’t do as we do, do as we say” in the hope that one day we would. They knew — none better — that human beings are inherently flawed, which is why they…
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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…