The death of expertise →

Tom Nichols:

[Democracy] means that we enjoy equal rights versus the government, and in relation to each other. Having equal rights does not mean having equal talents, equal abilities, or equal knowledge. It assuredly does not mean that “everyone’s opinion about anything is as good as anyone else’s.” And yet, this is now enshrined as the credo of a fair number of people despite being obvious nonsense.

One of the values I try to live up to is that there’s no shame in saying, “Uh, actually I don’t know enough about that to have an opinion”.