There were a lot of professionals who reached out to me to basically say "Thank you for writing this." Breitbart claimed I was breaking that law. DEVIN STEWART: Is there a danger that Russia might take advantage of perceived ignorance in the White House, like Khrushchev did with Kennedy?TOM NICHOLS: I have that fear very strongly. TheAtlantic.com Copyright (c) 2023 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. I have no professional stake here whatsoever. People always freak out about plane crashes, and understandably so. [Editor's note: See H.R. I would say the two charges you can really lay at the feet of experts is that they tend to lack empathy because to them they live in a world where everything is obvious; they deal in a world of data, or they deal in a world of ideas. I didn't say you behaved unethically, @ellencarmichael. What are they saying?TOM NICHOLS: They mostly are from professionals. Americas not at war was a common refrain among the troops. 212-838-4120 Copyright Twitchy.com/Salem Media. Bret, Id like to know the scientific rationale for the continued ban on EU visitors, while immigrants and visitors alike from countries with far greater COVID spread and far worse vaccine administration are able to come here. There are places where we just don't know stuff.DEVIN STEWART: I think you talked about how ridiculous the day trader is in the book as an example. (This is where I am duty-bound to remind you that I do not speak in any way for the U.S. government or any of its agencies.) This, apparently, somehow makes it logical to link illegal immigration with travel bans during a pandemic and not at all just the usual red-meat, nativist bullshit from Fox. Courage exercised only when the coast is clear is not courage; it is opportunism. Or try another recommendation from our reading list of books that reveal our anxieties about a warming planet. I could barely lift it.). The second best result is Tom Nichols age 60s in Mount Sterling, KY. Naval War College, where he taught for 25 years, and an instructor at the Harvard Extension School. And finally I turned to him, and I said, "Dude, if I could do that, if I could see why I'm doing this wrong, I wouldn't be paying you." DEVIN STEWART: Wow. Interestingly enough, the most capable people and the most intelligent people are the most likely to underestimate their abilities, partly because they have a better sense of where the edges of performance are. I think it's okay to take stuff from Twitter. Updated 11:55 a.m. on Jan. 21. (Ill plead one personal exemption: When I was a little boy, relatives in Greece once posed me in a Greek Evzone-soldier costume with my uncles hunting shotgun. This was a war that was immensely popular at the outset and mostly conducted in full view of the American public. It's important to note the date [January 2014]. As Smiley said over his brandy, if my past were still around today, you could say Id failed. But as the election approaches, I prefer to think about my time as a Never Trumper by recalling the old spys final words to those young students: Never mind. DEVIN STEWART: A couple more questions, Tom. I want to think more about how to make this better rather than to keep plumbing the depths to find out how bad it is. When have I ever read Breitbart? I responded. If we were sitting here a year ago, wed be looking at Brexit; wed be looking at the rise of Marine Le Pen; wed be looking at these populist movements in Europe, all of which seem to have pretty much burned themselves out within a year. Tom Nichols 's email & phone Current Position: Contributing Writer at The Atlantic Location: Middletown, Rhode Island Experience: 34 years How to contact Tom Nichols Get email address: txxxn@theatlantic.com Phone number: +1-205-xxx-xx47 Last updated: 2022-04-16 Social media: Sign Up to Get Free Contacts Use a Browser Extension Opt-Out After Tom completed his high school education, he attended Boston University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Political science. It was me. And if the Trump administration is saying, "Well, we're all a bunch of smart guys who made a million dollars in Goldman Sachs or real estate; how hard can running Syria policy be?" If Trumps minions were determined to curtail my constitutional rights, I was more determined to exercise them. Looking at what we have in office and the whole spectrum, what could possibly go wrong?TOM NICHOLS: Let's just stipulate that World War III is the worst thing that can go wrong. You can be angry with the Court for furthering and enabling this weirdness, but its not the Courts fault. For the first time in my life, I felt like a dissident. Some turned out to be as racist and authoritarian as Trump himself, while others merely confirmed that they were little more than vacuous opportunists who were capable of betraying the Constitution at will. After the worst attack on U.S. soil, Americans had no real interest in adult conversation about the reality of anti-terrorist operations in so harsh an environment as Afghanistan (which might have entailed a presence there long beyond 20 years), nor did they want to think about whether draining the swamp and modernizing and developing Afghanistan (which would mean a lot more than a few elections) was worth the cost and effort. They would today be trying to learn something from nearly 2,500 dead service members and many more wounded. DEVIN STEWART: Wonderful. Here's Why, Russias Christian Renaissance Explains her Current World Role, Russian Artist Finds Out He is Dying, Paints 1000 Images of Christ. But mostlyI would say overwhelmingly the letters I've gotten are from professionals, from doctors. But as comforting as it would be to blame Obama and Trump, we must look inward and admit that we told our elected leadersof both partiesthat they were facing a no-win political test. Americans will now exercise their usual partisan outrage for a few weeks, and then Afghanistan, like everything. I had a lifetime contract with the Navy, but no contract is unbreakable. Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 5, 2021 Well, yes actually, DeSantis was the victim of a lie broadcast to millions of people and amplified by Nichols himself. Disgusting. She cant restore sanity to the GOP. Well, and also, that Baiee added an inflammatory linking of two issues that the original questioner says did not have in the question which that we would not have known because the question was laundered through the host. This Russian Priest Says "Grow a Beard" (Video), Young Russian Woman Publicly Confronts a Blasphemer, Dead Serious Russian Priest (Smirnov): You Are in Hell RIGHT NOW, Here's Why Nicholas II Is Glorified As a Saint, 300,000 Priests Were Given a Choice - They All Chose Death (Dmitry Smirnov Video). I dont have the energy or expertise to debate whether the Supreme Court should have taken on the case of a New York State law that limited the ability to carry weapons around in public. America Is 'Committing Suicide' By Allowing Trannies in the Military (Russian TV News). Homosexuals Persecuting Christians in America - Do You Feel The Walls Closing In? What are some other spillover effects globally?TOM NICHOLS: That's a good question, because I was surprised. My hometown was a military town, and almost all of the men I knew were veterans who owned weapons and knew how to handle them. A lot of folks have asked me if I wrote this about the election, and I really didn't; this goes back about three-and-a-half years, to early 2014. Several years ago, Tom Nichols started writing a book about ignorance and unreason in American public discourseand then he watched it come to life all around him, in ways starker than he had imagined. It is a real and outrageous situation and the fact that Tom would make light of it in an effort to score imaginary political points is horrible. That's really the lesson of that book. I am too scarred by the horrific outcome of the 2016 election to count any chickens, no matter how alive and clucking they might seem. 20th-century Greek American writers (2 P) Pages in category "American writers of Greek descent" . The president is talking about meeting with Putin very soon. I am a professor. Just because Tom Nichols doesn't care doesn't mean no one else does. Much of what happened in Korea and Vietnamultimately constituting a tie and a loss, if we are to be accuratewas beyond the control of the American public. There are some people, Smiley said at a dinner among young recruits to the Secret Service, who, when their past is threatened, get frightened of losing everything they thought they had, and perhaps everything they thought they were as well. I believe that if all of us had caved, Trump would now be much closer to victory, not just at the polls, but over the Constitution itself. Your implication that I behaved unethically by tweeting a question to ask my government official is preposterous. https://t.co/K6VJM3E79J. "TOM NICHOLS: "I nailed it." Thats not the kind of thing we want to be promoting, they said. This is approaching Alex Jones-level conspiracy theorizing. The derisive way he was talking about my in-laws and implicitly, my 6-month-old daughter, is noted, though. First, recognize the problem. Never have so many people had access to so much knowledge, and yet been so resistant to learning anything. It was the generically intelligent guys like McNamara saying: "I ran a car company. https://t.co/6pal9O1VvQ, Hi, @ellencarmichael. The senior figures there responded immediately. They kind of godfathered the concept, and they've supported the book to the hilt out there as it has been released, so I've been really grateful to them as well.DEVIN STEWART: It's got an endorsement from our friend Ian Bremmer on the back. But it wasnt supposed to be a guide to life in modern America. Were at war. https://t.co/cREfoKUABJ, Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 2, 2021, A question from a political consultant whose identity he turned into "a viewer" and then according to *her* added material to the question that wasn't hers. I think most people don't want to do that second part. Is there any hope?TOM NICHOLS: Yes. I suppose I'm not really supposed to sit here and say that. Its been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the war continues. You need to have a particular kind of intelligence to play the game, an agile mind that can not only recall . To change your comments display name, click here. The future of the world order is at stake. Across the world today, there is active hostility towards experts, says Tom Nichols of the U.S. Another example I can give you is when I went to a golf coach once. Back in 1959, the country singer Marty Robbins wrote a ballad about a murderous outlaw who met his well-deserved end at the hands of a handsome young Arizona Ranger who was carrying the Big Iron on his hip. (The song was supposedly inspired by a weapon Robbins saw in a shop, but there is some question about whether the Big Iron was a real gun.). Its late. Her profession has nothing to do with it. 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