Literature Review: How America Lost Faith in Expertise by Tom Nichols and Totalitarianism in America by Jeffrey C. Isaac
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Literature Review: How America Lost Faith in Expertise by Tom Nichols and Totalitarianism in America by Jeffrey C. Isaac
Introduction
The majority opinion in public rule is a part of public variables that influence decision making in the United States of America. The majority opinion could base on the facts that could be intellectual or a result of influence by past experiences. A lot of ideologies in ancient America came to life as a result of a background in the World Wars and the political battles in existence. The same case with knowledge, the majority opinion in most cases, takes the lead only for expert advice to disapprove in most instances. Well knowledgeable people prove facts beyond doubt that, in most cases, do not ogre well with the public opinion. The people with average knowledge on matters affecting the general public tend to get a wider audience than the experts that may rub off wrongly on the majority.
We examine two articles which have relative opinions on how majority opinion affects decision making in governments in the world and, more specifically, the United States of America. The report by Tom Nichols, ‘How America Lost Faith in Expertise and Why That’s a Giant Problem’ and the article, ‘How Hannah Arendt’s classic work on totalitarianism illuminates today’s America’ by Jeffrey C. Isaac Washington, both deeply examine how to shape majority opinion and the factors that attribute to majority opinion taking a stand.
