Is "Wisdom of the Crowd" an Oxymoron?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 24, 2019

Sophia Rosenfeld, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Democracy and Truth: A Short History(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), explores democracy's inherent conflict between the "wisdom of the crowd" and the need for elite vetting of information.

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