Dear Colleagues: I happened upon this interview with Tom Nichols, who wrote a book The Death of Expertise, that I wish I'd written. In the interview below, Nichols offers some insightful observations that would cohere with much of what we have been saying in our online discussions and with Gregg's general framing of the meta-problems we are facing, although Nichols doesn't address that issue in the broader terms that Gregg uses (e.g., Blue church and Red church). That said, I especially liked the discussion that starts at around 9:55 (just after some great comments about the power of social media) with a question about "tribal epistemology". If you have 3 minutes, have a listen perhaps to that segment of the interview: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DV50HMNB4qX4&d=DwIF-w&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=LBY7iUUv9zykhmh20MC0QX0Vn01HJniVv_jVC2a-i1A&s=cPXsLQr7gRr-t7KVxCR6GLkBSJLDKH5ddx9wrqyWam0&e= <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DV50HMNB4qX4&d=DwMF-w&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=wjF8cZoiFchamTuxBdDEmw&m=ay5G5nQZIMGvcfTyCPZug_h1CgeSJwCrWb5sxMjqJqY&s=XCssvUWofICYrJ6DpO2AbGvJqpDJ7BuneXY3jFQQ_TU&e=> Dr. Joseph H. Michalski Professor, Department of Sociology King’s University College at Western University 266 Epworth Avenue, DL-201 London, Ontario, Canada N6A 2M3 Tel: (519) 433-3491 Email: [log in to unmask] ______________________ eið + 1 = 0 ############################ To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1