Hendrik Hertzberg's Essays
Hendrik Hertzberg is a 2017 Democracy Champion Awardee! He will be receiving this award at the FairVote 25th Anniversary celebration on November 13th. Hertzberg was a White House chief speechwriter, senior editor at the New Republic and New Yorker and one of the nation’s great essayist. He’s written trailblazing essays about proportional representation, ranked choice voting and a democracy that works for all of us. Here is a collection of some of the best writings he has written over the years:
- Lani Guinier and Proportional Representation The Justice Department Loses a Formidable Lawyer
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National Popular Vote: New York State Climbs Aboard, The New Yorker
- Count ‘Em, The New Yorker
- All Worked Up About Proportional Representation, The New Yorker
- I.R.V. For Dummies, The New Yorker
- And the Oscar goes to, The New Yorker
- This Maine Initiative Could Shake Up the Two-Party System, The New Yorker
- Gottlieb on Voting, The New Yorker
- What do the Oscars have to do with electoral reform?, The New Yorker
- Yet Another I.R.V. Post!, The New Yorker
- Where To, Guv, The New Yorker
- New York’s Third Parties, The New Yorker
