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"People are not in politics for truth-seeking reasons," argues the data journalist and author of "On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything."

0:00- The difference between liberals and the left.
11:00- Is progress slowing?
14:57- Is the two-party system dead?
20:00- The future of journalism
27:44- Free speech is in trouble
30:07- Is Biden too old?
35:57- Silver's new book, "On the Edge"
45:00- Questions from the live audience.

https://reason.com/podcast/2024/03/06/nate-silver-libertarians-are-the-real-liberals/
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Journalist Nate Silver 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. His former website FiveThirtyEight became a must-visit stop for anyone interested in political forecasting and helped mainstream the concept of "data journalism," which utilizes the same sort of hard-core modeling and probabilistic thinking that helped Silver succeed as a professional poker player and a staffer at the legendary Baseball Prospectus. Reason's Nick Gillespie talked to Silver about the 2024 election, why libertarian defenses of free speech are gaining ground among liberals, his take on the "crisis" in legacy media, and his forthcoming book, "On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything."

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