snsiegel

In a recent profile, you stated you wished not to be known as a "gay statistician" but as a statistician who happens to be gay. Isn't that a bit naive in today's political and social climate? Don't you think that whether you like it or not, people will treat you differently because you are gay and that your identity as a gay man cannot be limited to your private sexuality? As someone so ubiquitous now in the public sphere, should you be addressing issues in your writing that are related to gay rights as much as baseball?

Hi, David. I love the podcast. Think I've listened to it since the very beginning. However, it's getting a little stale in at least two respects. First, you need to increase the level of diversity on your panels in terms of participants. Two Jews and a white Episcopalian don't cut it. Maybe more voices from Latino and African-American journalists. Where is Ta-Nehisi Coates, for example? Second, the selected topics get a little predictable. Where are more discussions about foreign policy or economics? Why not invite special commentators when the topics seem to appear a little out of your depths, such as foreign policy and economics? HUaL does this when discussing hockey. Or a separate podcast just for those issues? Definitely for economics or business issues. This would broaden the topical scope of the podcast from current party politics and the courts or US legal developments. In short, more diversity in terms of panelists (along many dimensions, not just ethnicity) and topics, please. Follow Hang-Up and Listen's practices.