This is the reason interview with Nicholasby.

Today's episode is sponsored by Better Help Online Therapy.

More on them later in the show.

My guest is journalist Nate Silver, who burst onto the national scene in 2008,

when he correctly predicted 49 out of 50 states in that year's election, outstripping all other analysts by a country mile.

His former website 538.com became a must-visit stop for anyone interested in political forecasting, and it also helped mainstream the concept of data journalism, which utilizes the same sort of hardcore modeling and probabilistic

thinking that helped Nate succeed as a professional poker player and as a staffer at the legendary

baseball prospectus. We talk about the 2024 election, why libertarian defenses of free speech are

gaining ground among liberals, his take on the crisis

and legacy media, and we also talk about his forthcoming book on The Edge. This was taped live at an

event that we call the Little Singer series, which is held monthly in New York, live events of

heterodox thinking with strong commitments to free speech and open

expression.

Here is the reason interview with Nate Silver.

So welcome Nate Silver.

Thank you, Nick.

Thank you, everybody.

So I want to start with a discussion of your recent essay at your substack, which is called

the Silver Bulletin.

Not the, just Silver Bulletin.

You put a lot of work into that title, didn't you?

No, it was like I took about three seconds doing it, and now it has like some brand equity

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