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The Death of Expertise

The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters

by Tom Nichols

Publication

Date published
2017

The Physical Book

Binding
Hardcover
Total pages
252 pages
ISBN-13
9780190469412
ISBN-10
0190469412
LCCN
2016037219

Reference

Notes
Not a religious book, but it sits naturally beside the apologetics on this shelf: its subject is why an argument from evidence no longer persuades, which is the problem every apologist in this collection is working on. The paged text runs to xv + 252.

Contents

  • Introduction: The Death of Expertise
  • 1. Experts and Citizens
  • 2. How Conversation Became Exhausting
  • 3. Higher Education: The Customer Is Always Right
  • 4. Let Me Google That for You: How Unlimited Information Is Making Us Dumber
  • 5. The "New" New Journalism, and Lots of It
  • 6. When the Experts Are Wrong
  • Conclusion: Experts and Democracy