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Flat White

In defence of the expert

17 April 2018

1:05 PM

17 April 2018

1:05 PM

David Pearl’s recent Spectator feature on Professor Tom Nichols, a defence academic and Sovietologist at Harvard Naval College, suggested that the establishment is smug and therefore are useless for our society. I found Pearl’s comments about Nichols and his book to be very unpersuasive. Pearl must have encountered Nichols for the first time.

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