Basically, Books Were A Luxury Item Before

You Don't Want To Influence The Same System You Are Trying To Forecast.

We're Not That Much Smarter Than We Used To Be, Even Though We Have Much More Information - And That Means The Real Skill Now Is Learning How To Pick Out The Useful Information From All This Noise.

Not Only Does Political Coverage Often Lose The Signal—it Frequently Accentuates The Noise.

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.

First Of All, I Think It's Odd That People Who Cover Politics Wouldn't Have Any Political Views.