The Crisis of Authority and the Crisis of Expertise

Age of Misinformation and Defending (Imperfect) Institutions Under (Often Bad Faith) Attack

David Leonhardt at the New York Times wrote an excellent article about the latest messaging debacle of this pandemic: the underselling of the amazing vaccines we have. It was something I had already started talking out about and may well have written the article myself if he hadn’t, so I was happy to see it. 

Right now, public discussion of the vaccines …