It's not even in the ballpark. CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) July 31, 2021. https://t.co/cREfoKUABJ, Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 2, 2021, A question from a political consultant whose identity he turned into "a viewer" and then according to *her* added material to the question that wasn't hers. You need to have a particular kind of intelligence to play the game, an agile mind that can not only recall . Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 5, 2021 Well, yes actually, DeSantis was the victim of a lie broadcast to millions of people and amplified by Nichols himself. TheAtlantic.com Copyright (c) 2023 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. February 23, 2023. There are some people, Smiley said at a dinner among young recruits to the Secret Service, who, when their past is threatened, get frightened of losing everything they thought they had, and perhaps everything they thought they were as well. If that happens, America will become a different country, and we will all enter the first iteration of an American dictatorship. Sign up for it here. This is why, when Trump is gone (whether after this election or in 2024), I will continue to oppose everyone who had anything to do with inflicting this scar on American history, long after the members of the Trump family are finally bankrupt, in rehab, in jail, or living in seclusion in Manhattan among the neighbors who already despise them. So, for those keeping tabs on tonight's @FoxNews soap opera:@BretBaier claims to read a random viewer question that links travel bans and illegal immigration@ellencarmichael admits it was her, not a random viewer i.e., a planted question, but not about immigration. I was a founding member of the band of Republican defectors known as the Never Trumpers, and one way or another, the times I have lived inthe movement to protect American democracy from Donald Trump and to stop his reelectionwill come to an end in November. Tom drawing attention to the travel bans cruelty is definitely a silver lining. Its about performative insecurity. Think about the American foreign policy establishment. My activism for #LoveIsNotTourism is in my freaking bio. Who are the experts who are laying out the possible snares and traps here to warn the president about "This is what it's like to talk to the Russians; these are the things"? The review goes on to cite Nichols' author notes as one of the highlights of the volume as it points the reader to "more illuminating books and articles. He later pursued his master's degree in political science from Columbia University. relatives in Greece once posed me in a Greek Evzone-soldier costume with my uncle's hunting shotgun. If wed been in it for our own enrichment, wed have made the smart play and signed on with Trump, because thats where the money was right from the start. He writes about international security, nuclear weapons, Russia, and the challenges to democracy in the United States and around the worldalong with occasional contrarian views on popular culture. "Well done, media watchdog! Meh. As of this moment in the early summer of 2017, the book is scheduled to be translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Finnish, and we don't think were done yet with translations, which I think is kind of remarkable. I'm pretty good at what I do. I don't think anybody should be doing that with the president, but I do think if someone says: "You're about to meet Vladimir Putin. "Here, I'm smart, so do everything I say." We are all in this miserable, frustrating boat. In the meantime, American citizens will separate into their usual camps and identify all of the obvious causes and culprits except for one: themselves. Toms tinfoil hat must be cutting off the circulation to his brain. Salvation of Christians Outside the Orthodox Church? Tom standing in a podium. Why Monarchy Is Better For Christians than Democracy, Want to Be More Masculine? The Foreign Affairs piece from last March, if folks want to take a look at that, is a digested version of the book; that is kind of the book in microcosm.DEVIN STEWART: What's the title of The Federalist one?TOM NICHOLS: It was called "The Death of Expertise. The people I care most about in the world all told me the same thing: Fight. And I think experts fall into that. It's interesting that as I've been writing this and as the Trump administration came in, there was a rumor that the president's assistant, Steve Bannon, has been walking about with a copy of The Best and the Brightest. They kind of godfathered the concept, and they've supported the book to the hilt out there as it has been released, so I've been really grateful to them as well.DEVIN STEWART: It's got an endorsement from our friend Ian Bremmer on the back. Right. The Russians continue to murder both Ukrainians and their own young men for Putins mad scheme. In doing so, the program also cultivates the next generation of moral leaders across the Pacific. "Jay is very upset that someone noticed. U.S. If Trumps minions were determined to curtail my constitutional rights, I was more determined to exercise them. Tom Nichols Owner at 4 Elements Group and JTCO LLC. They head off expressions of this kind of social disapproval by being aggressive and performative, daring anyone to criticize them for feeling the need to be armed while getting milk and eggs at the supermarket. All Rights Reserved. Has anyone brought up the point that any question submitted through Twitter would not likely pass @RadioFreeToms average viewer test since most people on Twitter talking about politics are hyper partisan and many work in politics? In some cases, I had to pass these threats on to federal law enforcement for assessment of risk not only to me, but to my community. I think that Russia's larger goal is to divorce the United States from NATO and to take NATO apart. But courage exercised only when the coast is clear is not courage; it is opportunism. There are always going to be experts; there are always going to be people who know how to do very specialized tasks. Today, there is a neediness in the gun culture that speaks to deep insecurities among a certain kind of American citizen. By hosting people-to-people exchanges, facilitating original research, and producing timely podcasts, videos, and reports on the most consequential moral, economic, and strategic issues of this era, Asia Dialogues advances cross-cultural dialogue and offers critical insights on how to reimagine the international system. Dont take my word for it that things have changed. Being pissed off about someone making a valid point is right on brand for Tom Nichols. (I had been asked some years earlier to be a contributor when the publication launched. I am a successful author, but none of my books are about Trump, and to this day, I dont even have an agent. "DEVIN STEWART: You should. As we approach Election Day, my career and my constitutional rights remain intact. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. There are two major flaws in the book. The emergence of a strong center in France; all of this fear of an ignorant right-wing, anti-elitist, anti-expert takeover in France turned out to be in the exact opposite direction. Updated 11:55 a.m. on Jan. 21. The election of Petr Pavel is important to Czechsand to Americans. Podcast music: Blindhead and Mick Lexington. I dont know how you can insinuate this was some nefarious thing. Elpidios, Video & Transcript), Communist Infiltrators Planted Pedophiles in the Catholic Church, EPIC - Russians Singing the Book of Revelation (English Subtitles), Fr. As is Tom drawing attention to his awfulness its important that as many people as possible realize what kind of person he is. But yes, you're the victim here, not the viewers who had no idea they were getting played by @FoxNews. I think experts in other fields tend to want to do that out of the public eye because theyre so afraidand I think this is where it goes back to lay peoplethat lay people will say: "Aha! The American public now has what it wanted. 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Americas not at war was a common refrain among the troops. And that pertains to anything, whether it's writing or acting or singing or any human endeavor.DEVIN STEWART: But the metacognition is also the awareness that you don't have the expertise.TOM NICHOLS: That's right.DEVIN STEWART: So as long as you're self-aware enough to know that there is something lacking in your skill set or your knowledge base, that's the key. I am able to ask a question of my government via a reporter soliciting public input for questions, the same as anyone else from any profession could. https://t.co/SBR3v3ivV2. Nor did Americans ever consider whether or when Afghanistan, as a source of terrorist threats to the U.S., had been effectively neutralized. It's not okay for a news network to scrub that same stuff from a political consultant and then present it as "man on the street" opinion from someone whose job is to shape opinion. The past is the future: The song Big Iron was a hit in early 1960, but it became an internet meme thanks to Fallout New Vegas, the 2010 entry in one of the greatest science-fiction-video-game franchises of all time, the Fallout series. What's different now?TOM NICHOLS: As I said, when I first started out, I was a Russia guy, Soviet Union. https://t.co/urh74K6eyK. It's a great book, and it has a funny cover too.TOM NICHOLS: I should tell you that the cover has all of these fake Twitter quotes on it. https://t.co/qIvLRlc7ir. We are trying our best with whatever tools we have to get the word out about this travel ban. But apparently the globalizingI don't want to call it "populism"effect of the Information Age, information overload, the broadening of education, and the segmenting of the media clearly has had a global impact on the relationship between experts and lay people.DEVIN STEWART: Are you hinting at a follow-up book?TOM NICHOLS: As the folks who follow me on Twitter point out, I could probably populate an entire annual volume just by collecting things out of my Twitter feed. Right on brand -all sides of an issue. I get hate mail; I get people saying, "Oh, you experts think you control the world, and Brexit finally showed you, and Trump finally showed you." I think it has to do with a sense of personal empowerment, of universal education, of course the presence of the Internet, and the segmenting of the global media into niche publications. I think it predates the Internet, and I think it has to do with the growth of a strong streak of narcissism in American society. Tom Nichols asked Twitchy to do a post on his take on Gov. Your implication that I behaved unethically by tweeting a question to ask my government official is preposterous. You can be angry with the Court for furthering and enabling this weirdness, but its not the Courts fault. So when Fox News Bret Baier solicited questions on Twitter for his interview with CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, Carmichael offered up a question about the travel restrictions: Tonight on #SpecialReport Ill sit down with @CDCDirector Dr. Rochelle Walensky & Im looking for your questions. How Reality Dating Shows Stoke Racial Tensions. And all kinds of things could go wrong, all kinds of things. Her profession has nothing to do with it. That's a no-no. Coverage in print media remained solid, but cable-news coverage of Afghanistan dropped off quickly, especially once a new adventure was launched in Iraq. Thats not the kind of thing we want to be promoting, they said. Who needs experts? Bret Baier publicly solicited questions. And finally I turned to him, and I said, "Dude, if I could do that, if I could see why I'm doing this wrong, I wouldn't be paying you." By Tom Nichols Hulton Archive / Getty; The Atlantic. There are places where we just don't know stuff.DEVIN STEWART: I think you talked about how ridiculous the day trader is in the book as an example. A.D. Green bubble. The Supreme Court just made New York less safe. He claims expertise in a lot of things, but his most recent . We are the safest mode of transportation in human history. Just because Tom Nichols doesnt care doesnt mean no one else does. But interestingly enough, I think, again, it's that problem of metacognition. It is an expansion of a 2014 article published in The Federalist. We ask people to prove themselves.DEVIN STEWART: Egalitarian.TOM NICHOLS: Yes. So I think it's a lack of empathy, and that many of them are not particularly good teachers. First, we will always be able to say that when Trump and his thugs took over the Republican Party and then the elected branches of the United States government, we did not cut and run. Why? I identified a Zito-like case of a "News" broadcast laundering a professional GOP consultant as "an ordinary viewer" in order to say "this is a question that many ordinary people have. He weaponized it politically in the same way that the Brexiteers did in England and the United Kingdom where they took a lot of folks who had generalized anger and anxiety about globalization and about the nature of the world, and they turned it into a vote that I think has already produced a hangover setting in Great Britain. Well, to be fair, Tom Nichols literally has nothing better to do with his time. I wish there were more generalists and more people who had a little bit more humility about policy. Theyve earned it.) (2/2). Right on brand. The newcomer was shamed into locking the gun up for the rest of the event. (1/2) https://t.co/2BfNkuAtao, I didnt bring up illegal immigration. So I must be pretty smart at most things." How Long Would the US Navy Survive in a Shooting War? ), I know. Therefore, you're wrong about everything. A win in the Supreme Court for the American right to threaten one another in public. This question from a Republican consultant is completely valid, thats why I lied about who I got it from., Bob Sampson (@bobsalpha1) August 2, 2021, All you need to understand that freak-out from the defenders of that Fox segment a few days ago is to replace "GOP consultant" with "Democratic consultant" and change "Fox" to "MSNBC," and then ask what those same people would have said about it.They went nuts because they know. People have actually raised this with me, saying: "Gee, in Asia is this a problem? The future of the world order is at stake. D emocracy, in its raw form, is about counting votes. Some turned out to be as racist and authoritarian as Trump himself, while others merely confirmed that they were little more than vacuous opportunists who were capable of betraying the Constitution at will. Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise. His execution of this resolve, however, looks to be a tragic and shameful mess and will likely be a case study in policy schools for years to come. Baier, apparently not realizing Carmichael has already owned the planted question and said so publicly on Twitter, doubles down: Carmichael, unfortunately, now inadvertently rats out Baier or whoever tacked on the immigration bullshit and plays the victim (which is a very savvy political consultant move, I guess). We thought it was something else. Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 21, 2023 Tom wrote a whole thread about how people in East Jesus, USA, are obsessed with people like him, because Tom doesn't care what people in East. As a lifelong conservative choosing Crooked Hillary over the Swamp Drainer, I received a short burst of interest, especially from talk radio. BREAKING: Defining Moment for Putin: Stand up to US/Israel Empire of Chaos, or Fold? By Tom Nichols Vladimir Putin during his briefing after the State Council meeting at the Grand Kremlin Palace on December 22, 2022 ( Getty) February 21, 2023 This is an edition of The Atlantic. Biden was right, in the end, to bite the bullet and refuse to pass this conflict on to yet another president. The president is talking about meeting with Putin very soon. What did strike me is that I was taken by surprise at how global the reaction was. No, Id say my 6-month-old baby girl, her wonderful Austrian grandparents and all those suffering under a cruel, unscientific, illogical travel ban on Europeans are the real victims. https://t.co/VTVSaWa2au, Will knows the person because it was a conservative writer and consultant who fed the question to Fox. [7], Stuart Vyse in Skeptical Inquirer "strongly recommends" the book and says that "[o]ne of the best things about the book is its apolitical stance" and finds "very little to quibble with" despite having different political leanings than the author.[8]. You could catch Lightyear, the perfectly functional sci-fi tale and Toy Story origin story, in theaters. https://t.co/IOi3eb1bW3, Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 31, 2021. But there was no time at which we all decided that close enough was good enough, and that wed rather come home than stay. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters is a 2017 nonfiction book by Tom Nichols.It is an expansion of a 2014 article published in The Federalist.. Summary. Naval War College, and this is a very dangerous trend. No one other than Ellen Carmichael is asking about banned travel from Europe. They would today be trying to learn something from nearly 2,500 dead service members and many more wounded. 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Jamaal Bowmans care package for Ron DeSantis definitely delivers on BS and, Chris Hayes bellyaching about Elon Musk buying Twitter and letting the poors/normies be heard BACKFIRES, will maintain all existing travel restrictions at this point, California Do Not Sell My Personal Information, Its been three days, and Tom Nichols *still* thinks Ellen Carmichael conspired with Bret Baier to ask Rochelle Walensky a planted question. That's a keeper." A shroud is settling over the dreams many of us had at the end of the 20th century. You've witnessed this around the world, as well, in Asia and Europe, this phenomenon of scorn toward the elite and toward expertise. My older half-brother, who lived a few streets away, was a police officer. Pegoda also described The Death of Expertise as "extremely interesting, important, and timely" and said that "Nichols, in short, provides a brief History, informed by psychology and political science, of what he argues is a new phenomenon whereby people in the United States are not just regularly wrong or ignorant but 'proud of not knowing things'". Protesters outside the Texas State Capitol building in 2021 . 212-838-4120 And all the guys in the bar are going, "Yeah, you're awesome, dude. Early life and education [ edit] This, apparently, somehow makes it logical to link illegal immigration with travel bans during a pandemic and not at all just the usual red-meat, nativist bullshit from Fox. I think one of the reasons I've been a successful teacher is that when I walk out of a classroom on any given day I can say, "You know, I really hit that one out of the park," or "Boy, I was really not on my game today." The gun owners I knewcops, veterans, hunters, sportsmenowned guns as part of their life, sometimes as tools, sometimes for recreation. But I also think lay people have to let go of the kind of poisonous talk radio tropes about how experts are the enemy and mean to do you harm and are just trying to line their pockets, and to recognize that we all do live in the same community and in the same society and that we really can take expertise and common sense and wed them together to return to something like the country we used to be, I hope.DEVIN STEWART: So "be nice to one another" is ancient wisdom.TOM NICHOLS: Know thyself.DEVIN STEWART: Know thyself and be nice.TOM NICHOLS: And the Golden Rule, yes. ), What I remember about guns is that I remember almost nothing about guns. Nichols has also complained about a recent Zito story for which she interviewed Bethany Mandel, because apparently the fact that Mandel is married to Washington Examiner editor Seth Mandel and therefore cant have widely shared opinions on parenting and homeschooling. I also know Ellen, and you're making an ass of yourself. Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2021. People who have talked about talking to him just say it's impossible to brief him because he just doesn't have a very long attention span. Thats an awfully elitist attitude, Tom. There's an editor, I think it was at Business Insider, who said, "You know, almost all day traders go broke, and they would be better off working at Burger King because they are that bad at what they do. 6 Vacation Rentals for a Russian Trip to Remember. Well, that phenomenon actually has a scientific basis called the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is that the people who are the least competent at something have the greatest tendency to overestimate their competence at it.DEVIN STEWART: That's because they lack the intelligence to be self-aware?TOM NICHOLS: They lack a particular skill called metacognition, which is the ability to step back and see that you're doing something poorly. Americans will now exercise their usual partisan outrage for a few weeks, and then Afghanistan, like everything else in a nation with an attention span not much longer than a fast-food commercial, will be forgotten. Much of what happened in Korea and Vietnamultimately constituting a tie and a loss, if we are to be accuratewas beyond the control of the American public. Republican political consultant Ellen Carmichael is one of many Americans struggling to understand the scientific reasoning behind that decision. The senior figures there responded immediately. I believe that if all of us had caved, Trump would now be much closer to victory, not just at the polls, but over the Constitution itself. The other is that at the end I didnt reallywe were talking earlier about The New York Times and how all their reviews always have a little of a backhand in them. Other people had to fight for their rights, not me. DEVIN STEWART: And the edges of knowledge.TOM NICHOLS: And the edges of knowledge. DEVIN STEWART: A couple more questions, Tom. "TOM NICHOLS: Right. Afghanistan was different. TOM NICHOLS: Thanks for having me, Devin. It concerns me because I think people misunderstand those previous examples of the failure of expertise. I was pointing my criticism at Fox; only *you* keep trying to make it about you. But the respect for the idea of expertise, of these exclusive, highly specialized areas of knowledge where people should defer to that body of knowledge and to the people who have that body of knowledge, that's what is really falling under attack in modern society today.DEVIN STEWART: How did you first come to observe this phenomenon?TOM NICHOLS: I think every young professional when you first make that transition, whether you're a doctor, a diplomat, a teacher, or whatever your profession is, you'll always encounter somebody who wants to argue with you about it, who goes: "Oh, you're a lawyer, huh? I became intimately familiar with the Hatch Act and its provisionsand I obeyed it far more scrupulously than anyone in the Trump White Housebut that did not stop the regular waves of emails and phone calls over the next four years, usually spurred by some Trump-supporting website or talk-show host, demanding that I be fired. Once more details are available on who he is dating, we will update this section. Some 70 percent of the public supports a pullout, something like this case during the 2011 surge. How hard can this be?" We're just not. With the localized and the national effect of this scorn toward expertise you probably get this question all the time, but does this attitude that you're describing in your book partly or fully explain where we are today in American politics?TOM NICHOLS: It does partly, and this is where I should also point out that I don't speak for the Navy or the War College. He picked her question about immigration but again, like I said I can see how appearing on conspiracist Joy Reid's show has rubbed off on you. Its been invisible. But Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden all ran on getting out of the war, and now were out. America still needs accountability at every level. Tell me about some of these letters that you're getting from all over the world. 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