No One “Trusts the Experts.” Here’s Why That’s a Problem.
The “expert class” is crumbling—and last week’s viral clash between comedian Dave Smith and author Douglas Murray on “The Joe Rogan Experience” is Exhibit A. From COVID lockdowns to foreign policy disasters, the “experts” have built a pretty rough track record over the past 25 years. President Trump’s crusade against Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League—a breeding ground for the so-called experts behind some of the worst ideas in modern politics—is itself mired in separate Israel-Palestine controversies. So where does that leave normal Americans, who are just trying to figure out what’s going on?