Hello and welcome to the Bullard podcast.

I'm your host Tim Miller.

It is Friday.

We've survived another week, barely.

And I am here with one of your faves, Professor Emeritus at the Naval War College.

He's a staff writer at the Atlantic.

His books include The Death of

Expertise, which has an updated and expanded edition. Go get it. It's Tom Nichols and maybe Cat

Lily. We'll see. How's it going, Tom? Good, Tim. Lily's sitting right here. She's waiting for her

close-up. So we may have a Lilly sighting. All right. So somehow, I went back and looked at the archives.

Time is a flat circle.

I feel like I'm living a lifetime every day.

I also feel like I'm hearing from you constantly in all your various platforms.

And so I was like, when was Nichols last on the pod?

And it was the day after inauguration.

Oh, yeah.

That was a real upper for people.

So it's been six weeks since then.

And I wanted to start by just kind of asking you your biggest takeaways from this

in terminal six weeks.

What has surprised you?

What has outraged you most?

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