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March 20, 2017

Glenn Reynolds: If Expertise Is Dead, It's Death By Suicide

In response to this twatty twaddle from Foreign Policy...


And Tom Nichols' desperation to have people take him seriously again even though no one's ever taken him seriously before...

Glenn Reynolds explains to the self-declared "expert" caste why no one listens to them: because they are constantly wrong, and rather than correcting themselves, they shriek that The Common People should overlook their errors because experting is hard and stuff.


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