Monthly Archives: November 2012

Eric McGhee of the Public Policy Institute of California pushes back on the gerrymandering explanation over at The Monkey Cage. Basically, he estimates what would have happened this year had the 2008 districts remained in force, and concludes: Democrats do … Continue reading →

Redistricting is one of my pet peeves. I’m a fan of proportional representation in the first place, which would remove the problem of redistricting completely, but if we’re going to do it this way let’s do it right. But we’re … Continue reading →

Tim Wu’s The Master Switch‘s greatest flaw is by no means unique. “Practically every” book about social or political ills,” David Greenberg tells us, “finishes with an obligatory prescription that is utopian, banal, unhelpful or out of tune with the … Continue reading →