How We Killed Expertise By Tim Nichols

Expertise is very important to have before making a claim or judgment. Having expertise makes a person more credible in their statements and their claims. Tim Nichols, author of the article, “How We Killed Expertise (and why we need it back)” claims that ordinary people believe that they know more than experts in every field and that people like that are the ones ruining the United States as a republic. Throughout his article, Nichols uses many rhetorical devices to express his feeling how people believe that they are expertise in almost every field. Nichols describes how the U.S. has excelled in various topics such as science, diplomacy, and arts, while still letting the ordinary people vote to decide and have a voice. Nichols also states

Naval War College, in his article, How We Killed Expertise (And why we need it back) describes how citizens of America are killing expertise by assuming that they know everything about a topic. Nichols article was published by Politico in 2017; it was originally published in Politico’s magazine. The purpose of this article is to inform American citizens how we as people are killing expertise by believing that we know everything. For example, our President Donald Trump does things without consulting with politic experts because he thinks he know everything which is not true since he’s a business man not a

He states “When most Americans think a quarter of the U.S. federal budget is devoted to foreign aid, when more than 70 percent of them cannot name all three branches of government-and nearly a third can’t name even one-the basic structures of American democracy cannot survive.” The authors tone rose because many Americans are ignorant since they like to believe and make things up. I understand the authors tone because it’s these people who are the cause of killing the expertise since they think they know it all, but that is not the