Tom Nichols is a staff writer at The Atlantic. An expert on international security issues, he taught national security affairs for 25 years at the U.S. Naval War College, as well as at the Harvard Extension School, Dartmouth, and Georgetown. He was a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. He served on Capitol Hill as personal staff for defense and security affairs to the late Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania. In 2024 he released the second edition of The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters, an international best-seller that has been translated into fourteen foreign languages. He is also the author of Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy, which Publisher’s Weekly called "A searing critique of contemporary political culture and the rise of illiberalism on both the right and the left."He is also a five-time undefeated Jeopardy! champion and was listed in the Jeopardy Hall of Fame after his 1994 appearances as one of the best players of the game. A native of Massachusetts, he lives in Rhode Island.