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Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters

October 25, 2018
07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Hawkins-Carlson Room

Thomas Nichols
US Naval War College
National Security Affairs
Professor

Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Professor Nichols discusses how the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement.

Tom Nichols is Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College, an adjunct professor at the Harvard Extension School, and a former aide in the U.S. Senate. He is also the author of several works on foreign policy and international security affairs.

Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures 

Category: Lectures