Tom Nichols
Tom Nichols is the author of The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Goes Beyond Cronyism—To Something Far Worse
By naming people such as Herman Cain and Stephen Moore to top jobs, Trump converts the machinery of government to his personal use.
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Mark Wilson / Getty In Trump’s World, Reality Is Negotiable
The president’s resistance to learning will long outlive his administration.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Trump Escalates His Assault on Civil-Military Relations
The president’s public disparagement of retired generals compounds the damage he has done.
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Carol Highsmith / Library of Congress Why I’m Leaving the Republican Party
The Kavanaugh confirmation fight revealed the GOP to be the party of situational ethics and moral relativism in the name of winning at all costs.
