Post-expert democracy: Why nobody trusts elites anymore

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Archon Fung says we’ve entered an era of “wide aperture, low deference democracy. It’s a dizzying period of wide-open public discourse where a much wider range of ideas and potential policies are being debated and, at the same time, traditional elites in politics, media, and academia are being pushed aside. How did the experts get to this sorry state? There are many reasons, he says, but "avarice" and inequality are a good place to start.