“Hillary Clinton used a private email account to conduct official state business. Experts say that if this violates any federal rules, then she . . . will still be president.” IfsStillsStatesUsedPresidentAccountsClintonExpertsOfficialsEmail Author:Jimmy Fallon
“A timely and incisive look into the history, politics, and future of the Muslim Brotherhood by the foremost expert on Islamism in Egypt. Carrie Rosefsky Wickham has constructed a detailed account of how the Brotherhood confronts the challenges before it, and why and when it embraces change. Everyone concerned with the future of Egypt should read this book.” ShouldLooksBookChallengesConcernedAccountsEmbraceExpertsCarrieBrotherhoodEgyptTimelyEmbrace ChangeMuslim Brotherhood Author:Vali Nasr
“For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit, accounts of debates, and Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general. You would be surprised at the amount of time this saves.” I CanPhilosophyWould BePoliticalIndividualEconomicTheoryAmountSpeechAccountsNotesFinancialCreditDinnerDebateNewspapersExpertsCommentThinkerDiplomaticEditorialsOratoryGroundingSemanticsEconomic TheoryGreat ThinkersDissertationPolitical Speeches Book:Tyranny of Words Source: Tyranny of Words
“The ones who show up to take, they show up and say, "Hi. My name is Steve. I'm an expert in this and I've studied this and I've worked with these clients." On every single power point presentation, it has their email, their Twitter handle and their Facebook account, so you can follow them. At the end, they tell you, "Please follow me." When you ask them a question, they say, "Well, I could tell you the answer, but you should really just read my book."” ShouldWellsBookEndsShowsAsksNamesAnswersPleaseAccountsHandleExpertsClientsEmailPresentationFollow MeHi My Name Is Author:Simon Sinek
“Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth.” AgeScienceFaithMoralityEvidenceTestsAccountsMethodExpertsSuperstitionsCopTrafficMysticalSovereigntyInquiryRabbitsInfallibility Author:Louis Kronenberger
“Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.” ProcessNaturalViewsStudyStudentsEvolutionArgumentAccountsPaidDataPreservesExpertsFancySelectionFossilsNatural SelectionStasis Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interest of the few. And the enlightenment must proceed in ways which force the administrative specialists to take account of the needs. The world has suffered more from leaders and authorities than from the masses. The essential need ... is the improvement of the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion. That is the problem of the public.” WorldWayNeedsProblemGovernmentForceInterestChanceLeaderDemocracyConditionsEssentialsAuthorityMassEnlightenmentAccountsMethodImprovementDebateDiscussionExpertsPersuasionSpecialistsOligarchyAdministrative Book:The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry Source: The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry