I mentioned Rick Hertzberg's dogged, Jack-Russell-like refusal to let go of the electoral college as an anachronism. Here are two pieces by him on that theme - here (go to final graf if the rest too boring) and here. I've never known someone as urbane and easy-going as Rick get so animated by something as dry as the electoral college. But that's what makes him Rick: unlike me, he's passionate about democracy. (I tend to get more passionate about liberty, and constitutional restraints, but all former TNR editors are weird in their own ways.)
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/04/the-electoral-college/229416/
