Up With Eggheads

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Experts have had a rough year. Tom Nichols sees a new fervor in the country's anti-intellectualism, and he thinks it stems from frustration with elites. Turns out, there's a difference between the people with expertise and the people with power. Nichols is a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. His book is The Death of Expertise. In the Spiel, the two recent suicides in the news tell us something about how we talk about murder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.0	It's Wednesday April 19th, 2017 from Slate It's the Gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:43.0	So yes, the carrier group Carl Vinson was steaming into not North Korea but Australia.
0:49.0	Embarrassing.
0:50.0	Also not steaming, not steaming at all.
0:52.0	The Nimitz class carriers like the Carl Vinson, they're all propelled by engines using nuclear reactors.
0:58.0	But I guess you can't say it was nooking toward North Korea, can you?
1:02.0	No, you can't because that muddies the message.
1:04.0	Also quite to the point it wasn't nooking towards North Korea.
1:07.0	It was nooking towards Australia.
1:09.0	So fine, yes, an embarrassment for the administration and the Pacific fleet.
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