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A New Baseball Metric That Could Improve the Game March 19, 2025
As Opening Day approaches, diamond devotees are dusting off copies of The Baseball Encyclopedia and refreshing their memories on the sport’s hallowed statistical records: batting average, home runs, runs batted-in, and the like. Turn on a ballgame no...
Hollywood’s Obsession With AI-enabled ‘Perfection’ March 03, 2025
The notion of authenticity in the movies has moved a step beyond the merely realistic. More and more, expensive and time-consuming fixes to minor issues of screen realism have become the work of statistical data renderings—the visual or aural product...
A Veteran Teacher’s Audacious Plan for Staving Off American Decline June 03, 2024
The following essay is adapted from the recently released book LESSONS IN LIBERTY: Thirty Rules for Living from Ten Extraordinary Americans (HarperCollins) by Jeremy S. Adams Decades and centuries in the future, historians will look back at our pecu...
The Value of the Negro Leagues Can’t Be Captured in Stats June 03, 2024
In my major-league career, I hit 59 home runs. You can look it up; it’s right there in the record books. Baseball statistics offer a comforting solidity. They are concrete, tangible, and unchanging.Only the truth is, numbers drip with bias, like anyt...
Who You Talkin’ To, Robert De Niro? June 03, 2024
If the phrase “Trump Derangement Syndrome” was listed in the The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, surely a photo of Robert De Niro would serve as the accompanying illustration. For years, De Niro has been ranting and raving abou...
