Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a s

A cult of anti-expertise sentiment has coincided with anti-intellectualism, resulting in massively viral yet poorly informed debates ranging from the anti-vacci

Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a s

In recent political debates there has been a significant change in the valence of the word “experts” from a superlative to a near pejorative, typically acco

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America’s retreat from reason We live in a time when t