New Republic Editor Rips Nate Silver’s Data ‘Intimidation’ | Talking Points Memo

The New Republic’s literary editor Leon Wieseltier ripped Nate Silver’s newly relaunched FiveThirtyEight website on Wednesday, urging readers to resist the “intimidation by quantification practiced by Silver and the other data mullahs.”


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