The National Insecurity State

Interesting when you find an old article that rings even truer today.

The GRE Power Prep actually has a verbal reasoning question derived from this article:

But they pay little attention to the opposite and more treacherous failing: false certainty, refusing to confess their mistakes and implicitly claiming (i) infallibility , thereby embarrassing the nation and undermining the Constitution, which established various mechanisms of self-correction on the premise that even the wisest men are sometimes wrong and need, precisely when they find it most (ii) discomfiting , the benefit of (iii) a remedial process.