The Responsibility of Intellectuals — When Expertise Serves Power
A society can contain intense disagreement among experts while leaving its deepest assumptions almost entirely untouched.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Responsibility of Intellectuals by Noam Chomsky as our lens, this episode investigates how institutions shape the relationship between expertise, public responsibility, and political power.
Chomsky argues that educational privilege gives intellectuals both the opportunity and the obligation to expose deception, investigate hidden motives, and scrutinize abuses committed by their own…
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