Tom Nichols could impress anyone by the fact that he is a five-time Jeopardy! champion, and ranks as one of the best who has played the TV game. Add to it that he is a professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College and an adjunct professor at the Harvard Extension School, and the resume impresses even more.
But Nichols says he has had occasions where people have tried to diminish his expertise on several subjects, and in fact have attempted to impress....