Dewey came to

Oct 10, 2024 | johngasaway.substack.com | John Gasaway |Dewey came to

British historian Norman Davies penned a sentence that doubles as a recap of every close election ever: “I have come to hold that Causality is not composed exclusively of determinist, individualist, or random elements, but from a combination of all three.” In the United States our distinctive method for electing presidents perhaps leads us to give the random elements short descriptive shrift.