I spend my days surrounded by opinions. In the op-ed section, everyone has a “take.” Everyone is a critic. Everyone has a 280-character solution to a 2,000-year-old problem. But after twenty years in the business, the most sophisticated thing I’ve learned to say is: “I don’t know enough about that to have an opinion.” In a world that demands instant reactions, silence has become a high-end luxury. 1. The “Hot Take” Inflation We are suffering from intellectual inflation. When everyone is shouting, the value of words drops to zero. We feel a strange, modern pressure to “check-in” on every global crisis, every celebrity feud, and every political shift. But here’s…