12 Quotes by Tom Nichols

These kinds of features will be rolled out in additional modules.

Never have so many people had access to so much knowledge, and yet been so resistant to learning anything.

Americans have reached a point where ignorance, especially of anything related to public policy, is an actual virtue. To reject the advice of experts is to assert autonomy, a way for Americans to insulate their increasingly fragile egos from ever being told they’re wrong about anything. It is a new Declaration of Independence: no longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident, even the ones that aren’t true.