
The Constitution of Knowledge
A Defense of Truth
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Traber Burns
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Jonathan Rauch
Arming Americans to defend the truth from today’s war on facts.
Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multifront challenge to America’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood.
In 2016, Russian trolls and bots nearly drowned the truth in a flood of fake news and conspiracy theories, and Donald Trump and his troll armies continued to do the same. Social media companies struggled to keep up with a flood of falsehoods and too often didn’t even seem to try. Experts and some public officials began wondering if society was losing its grip on truth itself. Meanwhile, another new phenomenon appeared: “cancel culture”. At the push of a button, those armed with a cellphone could gang up by the thousands on anyone who ran afoul of their sanctimony.
In this pathbreaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel 18th-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the “Constitution of Knowledge” - our social system for turning disagreement into truth.
By explicating the Constitution of Knowledge and probing the war on reality, Rauch arms defenders of truth with a clearer understanding of what they must protect, why they must do - and how they can do it. His book is a sweeping and listenable description of how every American can help defend objective truth and free inquiry from threats as far away as Russia and as close as the cellphone.
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For reminding us that truth has in the past and can again in the future triumph over outrage. Thank you.
The accomplishments of humanity in recent history are so vast and wondrous, that the system through which we’ve accomplished it sometimes seems indestructible. Yet this system has gaping vulnerabilities. For dedicating your life to defending this system. Thank you.
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Excellent!
A MUST read.
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Brilliant argument
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Good defense for free speech and truth.
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Narrator ruins it
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A really good book
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Great content ... narrator is absolutely horrible
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The study of TRUTH
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an excellent read for the challenges we face.
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Absolutely ESSENTIAL Reading For Honest People
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