The Weaponization of Expertise: How Elites Fuel Populism

by Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson

The problem with expertise--and the dark side of the equation "knowledge = power."

Experts are not infallible. Treating them as such has done us all a grave disservice, and, as The Weaponization of Expertise makes painfully clear, given rise to the very populism that all-knowing experts and their elite coterie decry. Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson use the devastating example of the COVID-19 pandemic to illustrate their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262049597
• ISBN13: 9780262049597
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages