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Trump and the Dunning-Kruger Effect…

with a surprise appearance by philosopher Steven Nadler (Wisconsin)!

(Thanks to John Doris for the pointer.)

UPDATE:  Steve Nadler writes with a useful bit of context:

Thanks for the notice about the Times OpEd piece.  However, just to clarify, lest I come across as a poseur: I did not present myself as a “foreign policy analyst”, nor did I expect him to identify me as such (and I don’t even play one on TV).  Rather, Edsall, who is an OpEd writer for the Times, wrote me an email after I had published an opinion piece on Spinoza and the Dutch elections that was syndicated:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/dutch-election-wilders-spinoza-by-steven-nadler-2017-03

Edsall asked me a bunch of policy questions. I told him I was not an expert on such things, but did draw some comparisons between the ignorance of Trump and the ignorance of Euthyphro. I had no idea what he was going to do with all this.

And so there it went.

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