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Thomas M. Nichols
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble--but who is really to blame? In Our Own Worst Enemy, Tom Nichols challenges the current depictions of the rise of illiberal and anti-democratic movements in the United States and elsewhere as the result of the deprivations of globalization or the malign...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A cult of anti-expertise sentiment has coincided with anti-intellectualism, resulting in massively viral yet poorly informed debates ranging from the anti-vaccination movement to attacks on GMOs. As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, there are a number of reasons why this has occurred-ranging from easy access to Internet search engines to a customer satisfaction model within higher education.
"Thanks to technological advances and increasing...
Author
Publisher
Nash format
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
"Technology and the level of education have given people more information than ever before. These social benefits, however, also led to the growth of narcissistic and false intellectual egalitarianism, which led to the deterioration of the discussion of any topic. Today, everyone knows everything: just read the Wikipedia page, ordinary citizens believe that they are on the same level as qualified specialists. And if they start to criticize it, then...
