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Preventing a Popularity Contest: The Electoral College Works Exactly the Way It Should

/December 26, 2019

2016 Electoral College results alongside President Donald J. Trump. Courtesy of Gage Skidmore via Flickr.com, modified by Daniel Schwarzhoff The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Fifteen states plus Washington, D.C. have adopted the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, a promise to award all of a state’s electors in a […]

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In Lecture, U. Emeritus Professor Maurizio Viroli Examines the Prophetic Voices of Italy’s Unification

/December 19, 2019

Courtesy of Princeton University. “Are great political struggles ever sustained without prophets?” asked Professor Emeritus of Politics Maurizio Viroli in a Dec. 9 lecture. The talk, co-sponsored by the James Madison Program and the Program in Italian Studies, was centered on Italy’s unification (Risorgimento), and the “voices which urged Italians to emancipate themselves from their […]

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The Case Against D.C. Statehood

/March 6, 2019

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In the latest episode of let’s-reshape-institutions-that-make-us-lose, Democrats have turned on the “insufficiently democratic” Senate. The new brand of complaint has now evolved into an argument for District of Columbia statehood. The argument runs like this: D.C. has a population of about 700,000 people. […]

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Birth Control and Healthcare

/November 3, 2017

The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. “A man who bleeds from his genitals every month has a medical problem,” my philosophy professor once quipped while discussing Plato’s Meno, “yet a woman who bleeds every month is healthy.” While there is a unified concept of health, Plato argued, how it […]

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