The death of expertise: the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters

In 2016 Oxford Dictionaries declared ‘post-truth’ to be word of the year. In a year when the UK public voted to leave the EU, and the American people voted Donald Trump into the White House you may have found yourself asking ‘has the whole world gone mad?’ National security expert Tom Nichols argues that it isn’t madness, but extreme narcissism that has led us into these borderline-surreal scenarios.