The death of expertise

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Nichols, Thomas M., 1960- author

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Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, the rejection of experts has occurred for many reasons, including the openness of the Internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher...

Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, the rejection of experts has occurred for many reasons, including the openness of the Internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine. Paradoxically, 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 and distrust experts. This book is an exploration of this phenomenon but also a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age.

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