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. (At 30 Rock in New York, at least it was Starbucks.) PissedOffLawyer (@PissedOffLawyer) July 31, 2021. Or try another recommendation from our reading list of books that reveal our anxieties about a warming planet. It was me. https://t.co/IOi3eb1bW3, Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 31, 2021. The newcomer was shamed into locking the gun up for the rest of the event. I have no professional stake here whatsoever. I always think of the worst math teacherI never much cared for math, which was strange because I was a science major for a whileI ever had was terrible because she could not remember a time when mathematics was not obvious to her. When have I ever read Breitbart? I responded. What if I didn't have experts? He actually said, "Would it be so bad if I didn't have experts?" Never have so many people had access to so much knowledge, and yet been so resistant to learning anything. Naval War College, and this is a very dangerous trend. 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. I was at my churchs annual Greek festival, about to grab some souvlaki and baklava with my young daughter, when my phone rang. 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. We were facing real risk, and I wanted to know their feelings. 20th-century Greek American writers (2 P) Pages in category "American writers of Greek descent" . That's for sure. 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 would take more of an international perspective on it now that I am more aware of how much of an international phenomenon this is. Foxes have a very broad knowledge; hedgehogs have a very deep but narrow knowledge. Have you seen Breitbart? a colleague asked. What did strike me is that I was taken by surprise at how global the reaction was. Our current alliances with our liberal friends may not be a permanent realignment. As big an ass as I would be if I planted a question on a news show and then ratted out the host who made it seem like a random viewer for making the question seem nastier than the one I planted? 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). I did not design the cover.DEVIN STEWART: Who knew that Oxford was hip and funny? 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. TOM NICHOLS: The risk is significant, and it's massive. It was the generically intelligent guys like McNamara saying: "I ran a car company. As it turned out, even before the Breitbart story dropped, my employer had already determined that I had not violated any laws or regulations. Whether McCarthy wins or loses is irrelevant. Tom standing in a podium. 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. But I think what people can do in the United States, or at least the people listening to us right nowthis is going sound very Pollyanna-ishbut just be nicer to each other, just get past this divide. It is an expansion of a 2014 article published in The Federalist. Which is why Toms making such a big deal out of it. That's kind of weird. Another example I can give you is when I went to a golf coach once. 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. By Tom Nichols. Gun ownership was not the central and defining feature of their life. 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." And now those same Americans have the full withdrawal from Afghanistan they apparently want: Some 70 percent of the public supports a pullout. Little did Carmichael realize when she asked that question that she was about to kick the mother of all hornets nests. relatives in Greece once posed me in a Greek Evzone-soldier costume with my uncle's hunting shotgun. Were holding super-spreader events. I did nothing wrong. Some had even signed letters during the election saying that theyd never work for Trump, but when he won, they groveled and asked for just one more glimpse of the throne. All Rights Reserved. Toms tinfoil hat must be cutting off the circulation to his brain. The short pieces we all wrotemuch like this onegenerated a small fee that could pay for a nice dinner and maybe a bottle of wine. https://t.co/AgFflqhmZ6, Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 2, 2021, They keep saying that who it came from doesnt matter while completely ignoring the part where Baier lied about it. It's important to note the date [January 2014]. Naval War College. I had a lifetime contract with the Navy, but no contract is unbreakable. Tom Nichols (academic) P. Christos Papadimitriou; Stephanos Papadopoulos; Helen Z. Papanikolas; Alexander Payne; George Pelecanos; Nicole Petallides; Harry Mark Petrakis; Terry Phillips; 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 World as We Knew It shows how Greek mythology can help us make sense of the climate crisis. The experience of fighting taught the Never Trumpers how much the president had poisoned the Republican Party and long ago exposed the character of many of our former comrades. I do political/policy PR on totally unrelated topics so Im therefore ineligible to petition my government on this one that impacts my family. How should we be thinking about what comes next? Then he said "hey, I'm just asking what our viewers are asking. We want to reunite with our family kept apart by an unscientific, cruel travel ban. 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. https://t.co/EhJiai597Z pic.twitter.com/rABCmph5gY, Say, @ellencarmichael, you're a professional political consultant. I said @BretBaier laundered your question as if you were a random viewer, which is a no-no. That's normal. Interestingly enough, the most capable people and the most intelligent people are the most likely to underestimate their abilities, partly because they have a better sense of where the edges of performance are. First, insofar as that populist fever seems to have overtaken people running down blind alleys. The best way I can put it is that 30 years later I started having the experience of instead of people saying, "Look, I'm very concerned about this, and here's what I want to tell you" or "Here's what I want to ask you," or "Here's what I want to challenge you about," people would simply say, "Tom, let me explain Russia to you," which is not even a conversation; that's a conversation stopper. Some 70 percent of the public supports a pullout, something like this case during the 2011 surge. Once more details are available on who he is dating, we will update this section. What matters is that a long war is over. And what if Trump wins? DEVIN STEWART: Wonderful. For a guy whose beef is not with Ellen Carmichael, Tom Nichols sure has spent a lot of time talking about Ellen Carmichael. Afghanistan was different. As they did with all of us in the Never Trump camp, the presidents most fanatical supporters accused me of outright treason. After Tom completed his high school education, he attended Boston University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Political science. I think that Russia's larger goal is to divorce the United States from NATO and to take NATO apart. I have always trusted my fellow citizens with weapons. Was the question valid or not, Tom? TOM NICHOLS: Yes. U.S. Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 15, 2021. You were wrong about this. (I had been asked some years earlier to be a contributor when the publication launched. MARCH 11, 2022, 6 AM ET. 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? I am a professor. 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. "Jay is very upset that someone noticed. What are they saying?TOM NICHOLS: They mostly are from professionals. I know you have a tight schedule here. By Tom Nichols Hulton Archive / Getty; The Atlantic. Because that's some top strategering there. https://t.co/SBR3v3ivV2. (Ill plead one personal exemption: When I was a little boy, relatives in Greece once posed me in a Greek Evzone-soldier costume with my uncles hunting shotgun. Your implication that I behaved unethically by tweeting a question to ask my government official is preposterous. 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. [1], Kirkus Reviews described The Death of Expertise as "A sharp analysis of an increasingly pressing problem", although Nichols (who "sounds less like an alarmist than like a genial guide through the wilderness of ignorance") fails to propose a satisfying solution. Apr 22 Replying to @RadioFreeTom Leave out the lamb and we're good to go! "The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matter (review)", "AJP's take on Tom Nichols's "The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters", "Book Review: The Death of Expertise, by Tom Nichols", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Death_of_Expertise&oldid=1112147211, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 24 September 2022, at 22:24. He is also a five-time undefeated Jeopardy champion. "Well, of course, North Korea is like this," or "Of course, global climate change looks like that," or "Of course, macroeconomics, how can you be so stupid as to not understand that?" But I think that something has changed in that, and I think that now people are not just suspicious of experts or feel the need to test them, they're actively hostile to experts, and they feel that they know as much or more than experts, which is really kind of an astounding claim.DEVIN STEWART: How did that new hostility come into place? Why? One of the things that has always concerned me about the president is that he seems unbriefable. @redsteeze backs conspiracy theorist and projection artist Tom Nichols into a moral and intellectual corner https://t.co/JCFkLsEGUr, Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 2, 2021. [1][2], 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. ), What I remember about guns is that I remember almost nothing about guns. 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. Its been more than a day, and he just keeps going. I think that's natural, and as I've said many times, I actually think that's a positive part of our culture. Nor did Carmichael, who never tried to mislead anyone with her question. 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. Who needs experts? Sorry most of all to Tom Nichols, who, no matter how far hes fallen, can always find a deeper bottom to the barrel. If we were sitting here a year ago, wed be looking at Brexit; wed be looking at the rise of Marine Le Pen; wed be looking at these populist movements in Europe, all of which seem to have pretty much burned themselves out within a year. Honestly, I just assume that many declines in the quality of American life for the foreseeable future will be announced with In a 63 decision Elections have consequences, and with the current composition of the Court, this decision was inevitable. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. America Is 'Committing Suicide' By Allowing Trannies in the Military (Russian TV News). I mean, if youre concerned about integrity on cable news, Id steer clear of appearing on Joy Reids show, but if you want to take cheap shots at Bret Baier, go off. And that had really just been a kind ofI don't have a blog anymore because I think blogs are part of the problem in the modern world. But I think the American and global airline industry says: "Look, we deliver. Biden was right, in the end, to bite the bullet and refuse to pass this conflict on to yet another president. It's right here. As we approach Election Day, my career and my constitutional rights remain intact. People owned them; they didnt talk about them. Someone of his age and self-declared credentials spends all day and night being a jerk online. And I think were in a real-time experiment to find out if that's true, and I'm worried about that. DEVIN STEWART: As some final advice for us, what can we do about it? Read. There were a lot of professionals who reached out to me to basically say "Thank you for writing this." Seraphim Rose Discusses the Jewish Question - Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Englishman Drives Off Satanists and Rescues a 1000-Year-Old Church, When Knights Surrender Their Sword The Problem of Effeminate Men, Married at Age 16, Has 11 Children, Loves Her Husband, Lives in Russia, VIDEO: A Legendary American Monk Who Inspired Christians in Russia - Fr. DEVIN STEWART: Is there a danger that Russia might take advantage of perceived ignorance in the White House, like Khrushchev did with Kennedy?TOM NICHOLS: I have that fear very strongly. The speaker pays off his debts to the extremist base. Along with almost every member of the elite class. "DEVIN STEWART: You talk about how this kind of plays out at dinner parties, where the least informed are the loudest. Experienced Indoor Environmental Quality Expert RESET AP and LEED AP O+M Norwalk, CT. Tom Nichols President at Tom Nichols Excavating . 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. Baier did nothing wrong. Being pissed off about someone making a valid point is right on brand for Tom Nichols. It takes some time [in some sections] for him to make his point". [Editor's note: See H.R. February 23, 2023. We ask people to prove themselves.DEVIN STEWART: Egalitarian.TOM NICHOLS: Yes. So I must be pretty smart at most things." It's understandable that people overestimatefirst of all, let me just say that all human beings, whether they have a good grip of metacognition or not, overestimate their abilities. There are things I suppose I would fix. But there was no version of Stop the forever war that didnt end with the fall of Kabul. He blames trends in higher education (such as . A few needed law enforcement to step in because of threats to their lives and to their families. What to do about the deadly misfits among us? The problem is not the Courts decision. Tom drawing attention to the travel bans cruelty is definitely a silver lining. 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. Thanks for watching https://t.co/T20oaSSrHq. What's different now?TOM NICHOLS: As I said, when I first started out, I was a Russia guy, Soviet Union. Right on brand -all sides of an issue. The experts on things like Southeast Asia and insurgency, they were saying, "Look, this is a lot harder than it looks." 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. "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. French Voice Jury Marvel at Orthodox Seminarians' Breathtaking Performance, What is the Single Most Important, Most Beautiful Thing in Orthodox Christianity? Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy. 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. 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. 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. He claims expertise in a lot of things, but his most recent . Besides, the fight among the conservatives was mostly brewing in Washington, D.C., and I was a middle-aged professor living on the quiet shores of Rhode Island. #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. Republicans and their media enablers despise ordinary Americans. 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. Watch. Elpidios, Video & Transcript), Communist Infiltrators Planted Pedophiles in the Catholic Church, EPIC - Russians Singing the Book of Revelation (English Subtitles), Fr. Here we are again, trying to make our way around nuclear terms and concepts as war rages in the middle of Europe. People have actually raised this with me, saying: "Gee, in Asia is this a problem? A serious peoplethe kind of people we once werewould have made serious choices, long before this current debacle was upon them. 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. I was pointing my criticism at Fox; only *you* keep trying to make it about you.