First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.

If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.

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

All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.