Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.

I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about.