I am a professor. Tom Nichols (academic) P. Christos Papadimitriou; Stephanos Papadopoulos; Helen Z. Papanikolas; Alexander Payne; George Pelecanos; Nicole Petallides; Harry Mark Petrakis; Terry Phillips; 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. At a minimum, I will join with other civil libertarians to limit the speed and depth with which the president will take us into authoritarianism. The house is airy and bright, and Lauren and Cameron, fingers laced, wander the rooms imagining the life they might have there together. When I chose this profession, I ceased to have any identity outside of it, I guess. You need to understand clues and riddles. Americans will now exercise their usual partisan outrage for a few weeks, and then Afghanistan, like everything. He sits at the end of the bar, and he begins every sentence with, "Well, it's a known fact" or "Studies have shown, Diane," and he starts lecturing on something completely stupid that he has no idea what he's talking about. Elpidios, Video & Transcript), Communist Infiltrators Planted Pedophiles in the Catholic Church, EPIC - Russians Singing the Book of Revelation (English Subtitles), Fr. How hard can this be?" 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. I think a good example here is the airlines. And it's humbling. https://t.co/urh74K6eyK. Flipboard. 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? And if the Trump administration is saying, "Well, we're all a bunch of smart guys who made a million dollars in Goldman Sachs or real estate; how hard can running Syria policy be?" And all the guys in the bar are going, "Yeah, you're awesome, dude. Robert P. Saldin and Steven M. Teles: The last anti-Trump Republicans are biding their time. You were wrong about this. Tom standing in a podium. But win or lose, our goal will become something else. We were facing real risk, and I wanted to know their feelings. I used to think of myself as a gun-control conservativeI supported both the right to own firearms and the interest of the state to limit that rightbut Americas gun culture isnt about rights. I am not confidently predicting victory. DEVIN STEWART: Wonderful. That's kind of a hedgehog; that's somebody who knows something very deeply and very narrowly, and that does not mean that you're good at everything. How should we be thinking about what comes next? Kabul has fallen. 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TOM NICHOLS: Same title. The president is talking about meeting with Putin very soon. The experts on things like Southeast Asia and insurgency, they were saying, "Look, this is a lot harder than it looks." Heres Ryan Busse, a former gun-company executive who has now taken on his former industry, talking about the day someone showed up to a hunting party with an AR-15: The unwritten rules of decency were enforced by firearm-industry leaders I witnessed how this worked many times, including one occasion when a young writer brought his own AR-15 to a hunting event I was hosting in 2004. So I think all of these things combined together have created this kind of unfounded and fragile arrogance in people where they claim to know as much as experts, but deep down know they're probably wrong about that.DEVIN STEWART: That first article, was that the Foreign Affairs one, if people want to go back and look for it?TOM NICHOLS: The very first piece was actually in a magazine called The Federalist online. But lets face it: President Trump ran on this. Protesters outside the Texas State Capitol building in 2021 . It's lacking senior positions; it's lacking advice. Why do people suddenly believe that they are the experts?TOM NICHOLS: The immediate default explanation is always the Internet, but I don't think thats right. Tom wouldnt know about using his platform to help anyone. A win in the Supreme Court for the American right to threaten one another in public. The purpose of my life was to end the time I lived in., With a bit more pensiveness, Smiley adds: Or perhaps our troubles are just beginning.. 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. https://t.co/IOi3eb1bW3, Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 31, 2021. 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. As you pointed out, he is drawing attention to this cruel, unscientific travel ban, so I cant be that mad about it. Since this has come up again, just a reminder that the GOP consultant who landed this question described by Baier as "a real viewer question," later said that the stuff about the southern border was not in her question. The sensual new album Ugly Season marks a career watershed for the ambitious singer Perfume Genius. His work deals with issues involving Russia, nuclear weapons, and national security affairs. Copyright Twitchy.com/Salem Media. 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. First, insofar as that populist fever seems to have overtaken people running down blind alleys. But I didnt run the first time Trump was elected, and I wont run if it happens again. My older half-brother, who lived a few streets away, was a police officer. TOM NICHOLS: Yes. 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 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. 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. The Trump faithful also accused us of trying to get rich on our Never Trump status. What I do know is that, regardless of what any one of us does individually, two aspects of the Never Trump movement will outlast Trump. We are trying our best with whatever tools we have to get the word out about this travel ban. [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]. Tom Nichols on Twitter | Lamb recipes, Greek lamb recipes, Boneless leg of lamb Dec 29, 2020 - "Tomorrow, as I always do on New Year's, I'll be making my grandmother's Greek lamb recipe. The senior figures there responded immediately. In The Death of Expertise, Nichols condemns what he describes as the many forces trying to undermine the authority of experts in the United States. Brexit, I guess, is going to happen, but you already see that they are stumbling toward it. Read. 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"? This is some loony tunes stuff. While conceding that experts do sometimes fail, he says the best answer to this is the self-correcting presence of other experts to recognize and rectify systemic failures. Several years ago, Tom Nichols started writing a book about ignorance and unreason in American public discourseand then he watched it come to life all around him, in ways starker than he had imagined. You can be angry with the Court for furthering and enabling this weirdness, but its not the Courts fault. Was the question valid or not, Tom? He blames trends in higher education (such as focus on self-esteem and tolerance of narcissism leading to grade inflation and over-confidence in one's own abilities), the Internet, and the explosion of media options for the anti-expertise and anti-intellectual sentiment which he sees as being on the rise. So, regular people cant have the same concerns as a political consultant? They're foxes because theyre more willing to admit when they're wrong and they're more willing to integrate new information. 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. 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. If that happens, America will become a different country, and we will all enter the first iteration of an American dictatorship. The problem was that, once the initial euphoria wore off, the public wasnt much interested in it. DEVIN STEWART: Cliff Clavin.TOM NICHOLS: Everybody knows that guy. Saying something that is technically true while leaving out additional facts and context with the obvious intent of misleading the viewer is sneaky and unethical. (Im part of that last group. He blames trends in higher education (such as . I happen to know the person who asked this question. Shutterstock / The Atlantic. Never have so many people had access to so much knowledge, and yet been so resistant to learning anything. Coverage in print media remained solid, but cable-news coverage of Afghanistan dropped off quickly, especially once a new adventure was launched in Iraq. Use your critical thinking skills. 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. They just want to say, "I'm awesome," because thats the feedback they get from an educational system that says that all the kids are awesome and because nobody ever wants to correct their friends and sayit's kind of like being at karaoke, and the guy goes up there and he massacres a song and then steps down and says, "I nailed it, right? Were complaining and finger-pointing about who ruined our fall plans. They have also lived in Troy, OH and Matthews, NC. DEVIN STEWART: What are the risks here? We ask people to prove themselves.DEVIN STEWART: Egalitarian.TOM NICHOLS: Yes. The problem is an adolescent, drama-laden gun culture, a romance with weapons that became extreme only in the past quarter century. 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. What a 1904 war can teach Vladimir Putin. 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. The people I care most about in the world all told me the same thing: Fight. This Russian Priest Says "Grow a Beard" (Video), Young Russian Woman Publicly Confronts a Blasphemer, Dead Serious Russian Priest (Smirnov): You Are in Hell RIGHT NOW, Here's Why Nicholas II Is Glorified As a Saint, 300,000 Priests Were Given a Choice - They All Chose Death (Dmitry Smirnov Video). Today, there is a neediness in the gun culture that speaks to deep insecurities among a certain kind of American citizen. That's a no-no. 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." Protesters outside the Texas State Capitol building in 2021. Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 13, 2022 If you really want to piss off Musk, stay here and ignore him and the trolls. He is a professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. https://t.co/lu8BmsoYGH. Honest to God-a real viewer q. The newcomer was shamed into locking the gun up for the rest of the event. . 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. The World as We Knew It shows how Greek mythology can help us make sense of the climate crisis. All Rights Along with almost every member of the elite class. It's important to note the date [January 2014]. I feel sorry for him. There are two major flaws in the book. 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. relatives in Greece once posed me in a Greek Evzone-soldier costume with my uncle's hunting shotgun. 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. When my friendsincluding the few I have left among the conservativesask what the Never Trumpers will do now, I say with all honesty that I am not sure. Being pissed off about someone making a valid point is right on brand for Tom Nichols. Its late. I get a lot of notes from doctors who say, "Thank you for finally saying that as an endocrinologist I know more about medicine than my patients." Many Americans will bristle at the idea that this defeat overseas can be laid at their feet. What's the risk here, for example, in U.S. foreign policy? He said point-blank: "The experts are no good. "DEVIN STEWART: You should. It's about Fox's craptacular attempt to launder a GOP consultant's "question" as part of an interview with Wallensky. For those keeping tabs on Tom Nichols, hes creepily fixated on a woman who wants her family to stop being kept apart by arbitrary rules with no scientific basis. The US Outspends Russia 10X On Military, But They Are Equals. Its about performative insecurity. The Russians continue to murder both Ukrainians and their own young men for Putins mad scheme. TOM NICHOLS: Thanks for having me, Devin. If they chose to leave, they would be cowards who abandoned Afghanistan. Read this review of Tom Nichols' new book "Our Own Worst Enemy" - and why writer Oliver Traldi disagrees with Nichols' idea of democracy. "DEVIN STEWART: Okay, same title. Its been more than a day, and he just keeps going. I did get onea story I always tell out here on the roadfrom a molecular biologist in France, saying "thank you," and I thought, Wow! Your implication that I behaved unethically by tweeting a question to ask my government official is preposterous. So there is suspicion on both sides of the aisle. The fight will be a rearguard action, and we will likely lose. The fact that we didnt run is more than a point of pride. We didn't really understand it." 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. Liberal democracy is about much more than that. Our current alliances with our liberal friends may not be a permanent realignment. Therefore, you're wrong about everything. 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. Notice that nowhere does. Nor did Americans ever consider whether or when Afghanistan, as a source of terrorist threats to the U.S., had been effectively neutralized. The pandemic caused the biggest disruption in the history of American education. It is a real and outrageous situation and the fact that Tom would make . It's great. "DEVIN STEWART: So the ancient wisdom of "know thyself," [Ancient Greek aphorism] maybe the ancients were onto something back then?TOM NICHOLS: There is a reason we should all still be reading Shakespeare, exactly. I was wrong. Which is why Toms making such a big deal out of it. (2/2). DEVIN STEWART: As some final advice for us, what can we do about it? Its a great song. 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! Obama made something like this case during the 2011 surge, and Donald Trump tried to make a similar argument, but because Trump was too stupid or too lazy to understand anything about international affairs (or much else), he made it purely as a weaponized political charge and, as with his inane attempts to engage North Korea, in a search for a splashy and quick win. Ukraine needs any weapon its troops can learn to use, including tanks, to hold the line on the international order and the worlds safety. Seeing someone such as Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska or the ever-troubled Senator Susan Collins of Maine rediscover their voices now that the die seems to be cast is not particularly inspiring. 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. Yes, the founders of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project are now taking in lots of donationsbut that was after burning personal and financial bridges to the Republican Party that sustained them and built their handsome homes over the years. https://t.co/KzsJCSfQJ1, Soyour gripe is not the question, but who asked the question? Thats not the kind of thing we want to be promoting, they said. Biden was right, in the end, to bite the bullet and refuse to pass this conflict on to yet another president. My God, hes STILL talking about me because I had the nerve to publicly tweet a question about the EU travel ban that deeply affects my family to a reporter who was asking the CDC director questions from viewers. https://t.co/K6VJM3E79J. Donald Trump didn't create this, but he certainly weaponized it politically, just as Brexiteers did in the UK. It's not your imagination. They don't have to tell you what to do. "DEVIN STEWART: And that's a fact.TOM NICHOLS: That's empirically demonstrable; 99 percent of day traders go broke.DEVIN STEWART: Going back to the U.S. foreign-policy establishment, play us through a scenario here. I suppose I'm not really supposed to sit here and say that. A lot of things happen out of the view of the ordinary citizen thateven when Richard Hofstadter wrote his book on anti-intellectualism in American life back in the 1960s, he was already pointing out that the average citizen can't really comprehend the amount of stuff that goes on in a given day around them. Disgusting. So I must be pretty smart at most things." The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters is a 2017 nonfiction book by Tom Nichols. Tom Nichols ( @RadioFreeTom) is a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors, a professor at the U.S. Its so sad that someone wouldnt assume that a mother would love her child and her in-laws so much that shed spend day and night trying to find ways to change public policy so their family can be reunited. People always freak out about plane crashes, and understandably so. If that doesnt work this wikihow article gives more detail: https://www.wikihow.com/Disable-AdBlock, Page likes, content likes, and shares = GROWTH, Join us! Like many famous people and celebrities, Tom Nichols keeps his personal life private. It is an expansion of a 2014 article published in The Federalist. A lot of folks have asked me if I wrote this about the election, and I really didn't; this goes back about three-and-a-half years, to early 2014. You're just supposed to unwind your swing like this." We are the safest mode of transportation in human history. When have I ever read Breitbart? I responded. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. That's for sure. I'm pretty good at what I do. 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. #LoveIsNotTourism https://t.co/3C7zMNiUfV, Note: my note to Bret was about Europeans not being allowed in while people are coming from countries that had worse vaccination administration rates and more prevalence of COVID-19. The GOP strategy of acclimatizing us to scandal is still working. In post-2001 America, it became fashionable to speak of war weariness, but citizens who were not in the military or part of a military family or community did not have to endure even minor inconveniences, much less shoulder major burdens such as a draft, a war tax, or resource shortages. I was at my church's annual Greek festival, about to grab some souvlaki and baklava with my young daughter, when my phone rang. "DEVIN STEWART: "Nailed it. Have you seen Breitbart? a colleague asked. My question is, who are the Russia people? He claims expertise in a lot of things, but his most recent . But as comforting as it would be to blame Obama and Trump, we must look inward and admit that we told our elected leadersof both partiesthat they were facing a no-win political test. https://t.co/YlB0iugVPz, Correct. Bret Baier publicly solicited questions. 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 matters is that a long war is over. TOM NICHOLS: Let me give a shout-out to my publisher and say they were wonderful through the writing of this book. If they chose to stay, they were warmongers intent on pursuing forever war. And so here we are, in the place we were destined to be: resting on 20 years of safety from another 9/11, but with Afghanistan again in the hands of the Taliban. I have no professional stake here whatsoever. 2. Americas not at war was a common refrain among the troops. We will continue to update information on Tom Nichols's parents. What does my profession have ANYTHING to do with this? 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. Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2021. 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. Nothing is perfect, and risks are never zero. 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. Or alternately, that crushing moment of saying, "Wow, I can't believe I'm this bad of a writer." Let me just add, "And you should buy it anyway. As it turned out, even before the Breitbart story dropped, my employer had already determined that I had not violated any laws or regulations. I had turned it down flat.). In the meantime, American citizens will separate into their usual camps and identify all of the obvious causes and culprits except for one: themselves. But I dont believe that those of us who opposed Trump will declare that bygones are bygones with conservatives who supported him and go back to partisanship as usual. 170 East 64th Street Other people had to fight for their rights, not me. There are always going to be experts; there are always going to be people who know how to do very specialized tasks. 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. 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. "Jay is very upset that someone noticed. I think experts need to understand that the world is moving very fast, and that for the average lay person this is very anxiety-inducing that the world moves pretty quickly, and that we should take a little time to explain ourselves to our client, which is society. DEVIN STEWART: It is a global phenomenon. You need to spend at least an hour with me"whoever the Russia expert is"before you walk into that room." Other conservatives who spoke privately and sometimes publicly of Trump with utter contempt in 2016 buckled that November. I hope that this is purely alarmism on my part. Back in 1959, the country singer Marty Robbins wrote a ballad about a murderous outlaw who met his well-deserved end at the hands of a handsome young Arizona Ranger who was carrying the Big Iron on his hip. (The song was supposedly inspired by a weapon Robbins saw in a shop, but there is some question about whether the Big Iron was a real gun.). Tom Nichols asked Twitchy to do a post on his take on Gov. And experts need time to talk to you, to say "These are the things you need to watch out for." 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. Carmichaels Austrian in-laws have yet to meet her baby daughter, and her family is heartbroken. Across the world today, there is active hostility towards experts, says Tom Nichols of the U.S. Just the other day the president's national security advisor, who is a very intelligent guyhe's a three-star general; he's written a book; he's a thoughtful personbut when he says things like, "Well, you know, communicating our goals and issues to Russia is just like talking to any other country," as a Russia expert I can tell you that's just wrong. https://t.co/dEoyBoLbaP, I tweeted him as the mother of a 6-month-old whose European relatives cannot come to America to see her. Second, these four years have confirmed to us that Trumps moral corruption of the Republican Party is total, from top to bottom. But mostlyI would say overwhelmingly the letters I've gotten are from professionals, from doctors. Pegoda praised Nichols for not conflating expertise with credentials, and, while avowing that the book has some shortcomings, it has the "potential to start more important conversations". You need to let go, Tom. Now that it looks like Trump is headed for defeat, some Republicans feel safe to criticize him again.
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