I didn't say you behaved unethically, @ellencarmichael. [6] The volume is useful in its way, providing an overview of just how we arrived at this distressing state of affairs." Its been more than a day, and he just keeps going. I think one of the things that has always made America a special place is that because of the way our country was founded we don't instantly defer to rank or to educational credentials or to class or achievement. 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. TOM NICHOLS: That's where this problem of narcissism comes in, because metacognition is also a very humbling thing. 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Elpidios, Video & Transcript), Communist Infiltrators Planted Pedophiles in the Catholic Church, EPIC - Russians Singing the Book of Revelation (English Subtitles), Fr. If youre inclined to play video games, New Vegas is a kitschy, retro-sci-fi experience featuring some great old music andI am not kiddinga cast that includes Wayne Newton. So, regular people cant have the same concerns as a political consultant? But yes, 2016 was the year in which the anti-expertise or the death-of-expertise phenomenon became weaponized in politics.DEVIN STEWART: Since a lot of people seem to sympathize with the hate toward experts and people who areI remember Rush Limbaugh used to call them "pointy-headed intellectuals." And when there's something that happens, there's an investigation, and here's what we're doing, and here's the public report, and here's why it went wrong, and everybody can calm down." 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?" The Supreme Court has now affirmed that all these guys can be the handsome ranger with the Big Iron on their hip. I am too scarred by the horrific outcome of the 2016 election to count any chickens, no matter how alive and clucking they might seem. 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. There were a lot of professionals who reached out to me to basically say "Thank you for writing this." A win in the Supreme Court for the American right to threaten one another in public. 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. America still needs accountability at every level. Here's Why, Russias Christian Renaissance Explains her Current World Role, Russian Artist Finds Out He is Dying, Paints 1000 Images of Christ. They need to be more transparent, and they need to be more confident. Afghanistan was different. I think we can be optimistic about a couple of things. 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. He blames trends in higher education (such as . So there is suspicion on both sides of the aisle. There's much more of a hierarchical respect for expertise and education." Katherine Hu contributed to this newsletter. 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. We are all in this miserable, frustrating boat. We believed otherwise, as a nation, because we wanted to believe it. DEVIN STEWART: As some final advice for us, what can we do about it? And now those same Americans have the full withdrawal from Afghanistan they apparently want: Some 70 percent of the public supports a pullout. They would be grimly assessing risk and preparing both overseas and at home for the reality of a terrorist nation making its way back onto the international map. (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. I actually thinkand I talk about this in the bookof the two types of decision-makers, the two types of experts; foxes and hedgehogs. Sorry most of all to Tom Nichols, who, no matter how far hes fallen, can always find a deeper bottom to the barrel. Therefore, you must listen to us about everything." Select this result to view Tom B Nichols's phone number, address, and more. But interestingly enough, I think, again, it's that problem of metacognition. DEVIN STEWART: Wow. 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. 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. "Well done, media watchdog! I dont have the energy or expertise to debate whether the Supreme Court should have taken on the case of a New York State law that limited the ability to carry weapons around in public. Apparently, a TV series is in the worksso get started! We want to reunite with our family kept apart by an unscientific, cruel travel ban. 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? 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. Artemy), Orthodox Prophecies: Vaccines Will Be Manipulated to Alter DNA and Destroy Free Will, Finally, Orthodox Church Music that Sounds Truly American, Greek Priest Foresees Unimaginable Satanic Evil Directed Against Children (Fr. It was a good question. 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. You need to spend at least an hour with me"whoever the Russia expert is"before you walk into that room." Naval War College and an adjunct at the Harvard Extension School. Heres how to stop dating people who are wrong for you. Carmichael has nothing to apologize for. Or maybe such a project was impossible. They would today be trying to learn something from nearly 2,500 dead service members and many more wounded. 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. You need to let go, Tom. Spoiler: Its the people who refused easily accessible vaccinations.). 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. It was me. In the meantime, American citizens will separate into their usual camps and identify all of the obvious causes and culprits except for one: themselves. In doing so, the program also cultivates the next generation of moral leaders across the Pacific. The Trump faithful also accused us of trying to get rich on our Never Trump status. I used to think this was just a local phenomenon, but as it turns out, when the first article I wrote on this got published I started getting letters from all over the world, and Im starting to think it's a developed-world phenomenon. @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. The Russian president is frantic and lashing out in defeat. Now I was accused of legal wrongdoing for expressing my political views as a private citizen. While some lost money, all lost friends. 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. The Russians continue to murder both Ukrainians and their own young men for Putins mad scheme. Here we are again, trying to make our way around nuclear terms and concepts as war rages in the middle of Europe. Apr 22 Replying to @RadioFreeTom Leave out the lamb and we're good to go! No one other than Ellen Carmichael is asking about banned travel from Europe. [5], Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times stated that The Death of Expertise "turns out to be an unexceptional book about an important subject. DEVIN STEWART: It is a global phenomenon. Nor did Americans ever consider whether or when Afghanistan, as a source of terrorist threats to the U.S., had been effectively neutralized. Tom wouldnt know about using his platform to help anyone. He is a professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. That was Oxford's art department. Naval War College, and this is a very dangerous trend. 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. 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. Its about performative insecurity. And I think were in a real-time experiment to find out if that's true, and I'm worried about that. "DEVIN STEWART: "Nailed it. The thing I would say about the election is that Donald Trump didn't create this hostility to experts, but boy, he surfed it beautifully. You're not. PissedOffLawyer (@PissedOffLawyer) July 31, 2021. As we approach Election Day, my career and my constitutional rights remain intact. Ellen Carmichael (@ellencarmichael) July 30, 2021. I closed my blog as a way of showing everybody that you don't have to express every thought that goes through your head. 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?" Read this review of Tom Nichols' new book "Our Own Worst Enemy" - and why writer Oliver Traldi disagrees with Nichols' idea of democracy. I was wrong. I have written about, tweeted about and even am organizing efforts to try to reverse this policy because it directly harms my family. Right on brand -all sides of an issue. I have always trusted my fellow citizens with weapons. How should we be thinking about what comes next? Well, let me tell you about lawyers." 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." Were complaining and finger-pointing about who ruined our fall plans. Nor did Carmichael, who never tried to mislead anyone with her question. 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. For a guy whose beef is not with Ellen Carmichael, Tom Nichols sure has spent a lot of time talking about Ellen Carmichael. Well, and also, that Baiee added an inflammatory linking of two issues that the original questioner says did not have in the question which that we would not have known because the question was laundered through the host. I dont know how you can insinuate this was some nefarious thing. Well, to be fair, Tom Nichols literally has nothing better to do with his time. I have made my case against the president loudly and clearly. 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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. It's lacking senior positions; it's lacking advice. Ukraine needs any weapon its troops can learn to use, including tanks, to hold the line on the international order and the worlds safety. Then he said "hey, I'm just asking what our viewers are asking. To mock us or use it as a way to dunk on Republicans or Fox News or whatever is incredibly screwed up. DEVIN STEWART: Wonderful. 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. What if I didn't have experts? He actually said, "Would it be so bad if I didn't have experts?" That summer, I sat down with my wife and members of my family. Now I dont feel that one bit. 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.