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
Language: English
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