About this episode
Experts have had a rough year. Tom Nichols sees a new fervor in the country's anti-intellectualism, and he thinks it stems from frustration with elites. Turns out, there's a difference between the people with expertise and the people with power. Nichols is a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. His book is The Death of Expertise . In the Spiel, the two recent suicides in the news tell us something about how we talk about murder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices