The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters

People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education.

These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues.

Today, everyone knows everything and all voices demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism.