The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

By Jonathan Rauch

Book Overview

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 multi-front challenge to America's ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood.

In this pathbreaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the "Constitution of Knowledge"--our social system for turning disagreement into truth.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815738862
• ISBN13: 9780815738862
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"