Tom Nichols
How America Lost Faith in Expertise
And Why That's a Giant Problem
Foreign Affairs, 2017
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When populists reject the findings of experts, can the death of democracy be far behind?
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In an age when people have an overabundance of information at their fingertips, many Americans have embraced the idea that they can – and do – know as much about government as public policy experts. US Naval War College professor Tom Nichols presents a cogent thesis about what underpins this growing phenomenon of disdain for expertise. Nichols’s essay is an urgent, clarion call to urgently restore the symbiotic relationship between “ordinary citizens” and “intellectual elites.” While always politically neutral, getAbstract recommends this analysis to anyone concerned about the state of open and constructive conversation in the United States.
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Tom Nichols is a professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College.
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