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. That summer, I sat down with my wife and members of my family. 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. But I think the American and global airline industry says: "Look, we deliver. 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. Never have so many people had access to so much knowledge, and yet been so resistant to learning anything. 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! It's not even in the ballpark. But it wasnt supposed to be a guide to life in modern America. Another example I can give you is when I went to a golf coach once. (This is where I am duty-bound to remind you that I do not speak in any way for the U.S. government or any of its agencies.) Why? McMaster's Carnegie Council talk in 2014, a few years before he became national security advisor in 2017.] Tom wouldnt know about using his platform to help anyone. It is an expansion of a 2014 article published in The Federalist. You need to spend at least an hour with me"whoever the Russia expert is"before you walk into that room." 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. Now I was accused of legal wrongdoing for expressing my political views as a private citizen. There were always publications around the world that catered to the conservative viewpoint or the liberal viewpoint, but now we really have developed international outlets that are almost like alternative reality viewpoints. 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. The fact, however, is that Europe has far more robust testing and vaccination efforts (and lower incidence of COVID) than other countries whose citizens CAN come to America, like Turkey and Indonesia. I had a lifetime contract with the Navy, but no contract is unbreakable. Many Americans will bristle at the idea that this defeat overseas can be laid at their feet. That was Oxford's art department. 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. The Trump faithful also accused us of trying to get rich on our Never Trump status. The election of Petr Pavel is important to Czechsand to Americans. You need to let go, Tom. Therefore, you must listen to us about everything." Dixie & Russia: What Do They Have in Common? A political scientist who has taught for more than a decade in the Harvard . Therefore, you're wrong about everything. I wish there were more generalists and more people who had a little bit more humility about policy. https://t.co/e3E8svjYRu. I think it's okay to take stuff from Twitter. https://t.co/KzsJCSfQJ1, Soyour gripe is not the question, but who asked the question? 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." Well, because theyre trying to get you fired, my friend said. Jeopardy isn't only about knowing stuff. Our next-door neighbor was a police officer. I took a golf lesson, and he kept saying: "No, no. I promise Ill stop talking about the EU travel ban when they reverse it. Well, let me tell you about lawyers." 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. The Russian president is frantic and lashing out in defeat. The fight will be a rearguard action, and we will likely lose. Over time, my critics moved on to various other charges, including that I was personally unfit to associate with officers of the U.S. military, that I was an agent of the deep state, and even that I was a Russian asset and therefore a security risk. pic.twitter.com/EFrJiPntsj, Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) August 1, 2021. The problem is not the Courts decision. I know you have a tight schedule here. But there was no time at which we all decided that close enough was good enough, and that wed rather come home than stay. I hope that this is purely alarmism on my part. I did nothing wrong. 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. https://t.co/K6VJM3E79J. They don't have to tell you what to do. But because I teach at a military institution, I am a Defense Department employee and I am therefore bound by the Hatch Act, which prohibits government employees from using their positions for political purposes. I happen to know the person who asked this question. ), I know. By Tom Nichols Juan Carlos / Hans Lucas / Redux August 16, 2021 Kabul has fallen. About the author: Tom Nichols is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Peacefield. 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. 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. 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 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. But yes, you're the victim here, not the viewers who had no idea they were getting played by @FoxNews. 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. Choices made at the ballot box reflect the values and beliefs of the people casting those votes, which is why Election Day itself is often less important than what took place on all the other days before it. 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. The sensual new album Ugly Season marks a career watershed for the ambitious singer Perfume Genius. Other people had to fight for their rights, not me. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters is a 2017 nonfiction book by Tom Nichols. I have made my case against the president loudly and clearly. It's great. I think of this passage often, not only because I spent the first part of my career fighting (in my own small and mostly insignificant way) the Cold War, but also because I have spent the most recent part of my career fighting the possible rise of authoritarianism in my own country. And experts need time to talk to you, to say "These are the things you need to watch out for." Early in 2016, I said (in a conservative magazine, The Federalist, that has since fallen to the Trumpist fever) that I would take Hillary Clinton over Trump. 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. 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?" 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. 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? Rather than people even challenging me or arguing with me about important issues, people were simply saying, "No, no, let me explain your area of specialization back to you," and that, I think, is a new wrinkle.DEVIN STEWART: Is it because they have access to more information on the Internet? The newcomer was shamed into locking the gun up for the rest of the event. His books include The Death of Expertise and Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy. Today, there is a neediness in the gun culture that speaks to deep insecurities among a certain kind of American citizen. But the initial piece was a kind of a rant on my blog of "Why do people think they can explain Russia to me when they didn't know where Russia was three months ago?" Well, to be fair, Tom Nichols literally has nothing better to do with his time. Naval War College and an instructor at the Harvard Extension School. Then, that summer, I wrote a piece on how I became a Never Trumper for The New York Times Magazine. Tom: This has nothing to do with you, Ellen!