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Arming Americans to defend the truth from today’s war on facts“In what could be the timeliest book of the year, Rauch aims to arm his readers to engage with reason in an age of illiberalism.”—NewsweekDisinformation. 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 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 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.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 readable 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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Clearly and masterfully written, Jonathan Rauch’s The Constitution of Knowledge is about the breakdown of truth-seeking norms in a world of polarization. We no longer turn to experts, peer-reviewed sources, and credible media to mediate our news. Our crisis is that different factions don’t want truth found through morality or humility or reality-seeking norms; they want to win and beat their opponents. Finding knowledge is about seeking truth. Our political battle and polarization are about winning.This polarization exists on the Right and Left and both exist and are strengthened by each other in a symbiotic relationship. As Rauch writes:“One is predominantly right-wing and populist, the other predominantly left-wing and elitist. One employs chaos and confusion, the other conformity and social coercion. But their goals are similar and often, weirdly, they act as de facto allies.”Both contribute to the demise of liberal democracy. As Rauch observes: “What troll culture and cancel culture have in common is that they are techniques of what propaganda experts often call information warfare. Rather than using traditional persuasion to seek truth, they manipulate the social and media environments for political advantage.”This is a great book, but I don’t see political tribalists with an agenda reading this book, so sadly Rauch will be preaching to the choir: thoughtful intellectuals, independent thinkers, moral, decent human beings. Sadly, such people need to be in bigger numbers. Otherwise, the “epistemic crisis” that Rauch explores will only get worse.One important point. You will find people steeped in the fever swamp of misinformation rebuking Rauch's book by using Russian talking points and thereby supporting Rauch's argument, but of course we can find little consolation in this as we are horrified by watching our democracy disintegrate before our eyes.

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