Absolutism in Our Time: Revelations from a Political Phone Bank
4 min readSep 6, 2018
Lately, I have been doing some volunteer phone banking, encouraging voters to participate in the November midterm elections. Given my expertise lies in writing, this has been a sea change for me. I can happily talk to a large crowd gathered to explore books and sundry related topics, or have fun debating the true meaning of words, or argue the origin of dialects and how language…
