The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

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.

Author: Jonathan Rauch
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 06/22/2021
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780815738862