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“Pure democracy … have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property.”

The Atlantic: The Electoral College Was Meant to Stop Men Like Trump From Being President. “The founders envisioned electors as people who could prevent an irresponsible demagogue from taking office.” By Peter Beinart, November 21, 2016.

“Donald Trump has changed the way I view American government. Before this year, I would have considered Hamilton’s demand for independent-minded electors who could prevent candidates with “talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity“ from winning the presidency to be antiquated and retrograde. Now I think the framers were prescient and I was naïve. Eighteen months ago, I could never have imagined President Donald Trump. Now I’m grateful that, two hundred and twenty-seven years ago, they did.”

Podcasts, Podcasts, Podcasts

The Bello Collective: 100 Outstanding Audio Stories of 2016. “The best podcast episodes & audio journalism of the year, as chosen by the Bello Collective team (and friends).”

Lots of links to gread podcast episodes. I’ve been following Missing & Murdered: Who Killed Alberta Williams? and How to be a Girl and have listened to the Radiolab episodes The Buried Bodies Case and Debatable as well as the Radiolab Spinoff Podcast, More Perfect. Also, this American Life episodes Tell Me I’m Fat, Anatomy of Doubt and My Damn Mind and HumaNature episode Hoofprints on the Heart.

Link via MetaFilter: Ear of the Year.

Along the same lines, check out the answers to this Ask MeFi: Favorite episodes of radio shows/podcasts.

Writing Chancellor Angela Merkel

Die Zeit: Ms. Merkel, you’ve got mail. “Ever since Donald Trump’s victory, many people around the world have high expectations of the German chancellor. Tyler Brûlé, Agnesa Kleina and John le Carré have written her an email.” December 2, 2016.

Die Zeit: Das sollten Sie wissen, Frau Merkel. “Seit Donald Trumps Sieg erwarten Menschen in aller Welt viel von der Bundeskanzlerin. Auch Tyler Brûlé, Agnese Kleina und John le Carré haben ihr eine E-Mail geschrieben.”

Diese E-Mails sind nur drei von vielen, die im Zeit-Magazin vom 2. Dezember 2016 veröffentlicht wurden.