The Politics of Drawing Legislative Districts

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How you draw legislative districts drastically affects who gets elected. There's math all the way down t there's math in how the people drawing these cooked lines are doing it. Li, it's an aplic but it's an application like deep math, being exactly that will affect how much your taxes are.

In this episode, we sit down with Jordan Ellenberg, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

His writing has appeared in Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, and he is the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong – but in this episode we will discuss his new book, Shape: The hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy and everything else.

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