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The Constitution of Knowledge
- A Defense of Truth
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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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- HRPuff&Stuff
- 2021-09-01
Balanced view of threat against critical thinking
The narrator has a bit of a lisp or accent that is distracting, and it would have been better with a more precise speaker. However, the book is interesting perhaps trying to be too balanced though making the point that right-wing trolling and post-truth claims is as destructive as cancel culture attacking the person rather than the idea. While well laid out, I did find the view perhaps too kind and naïve for what the current grifters in the public common are doing to destroy a free thinking and free speaking society. Corporate information controls, and weak feckless leadership in government and universities are enabling this problem to fester and ultimately may destroy western liberal democracy as we know and love. But happy that I read it.
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- Winston T.
- 2022-11-27
Great book, but a little one sided.
This was a good defense against the censorious activism of today, but a little too one sided politically. My least favorite chapter is the scathing takedown of right-wing misinformation, as if the left is incapable of spreading misinformation. I'm no fan of either, but he brings it back when he goes on to say that politics needs to stay out of the truth making of the constitution of knowledge.
Also, a little behind on factual information about the pandemic. I'm glad he did not touch on the subject very much. He seems to still be down to Earth for the most part. However, his defense of mainstream media and as of right now organizations like the CDC are moot after the last couple of years, as these institutions have been nearly the biggest purveyors of misinformation as of late.
I respect his need to protect legacy institutions, but it was not convincing.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-06-26
excellent
People who sit down and discuss issues should enter those discussions inside the spirit of the themes in this book.
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- Jennifer
- 2022-03-05
Amazing book, great narration!
This is a must read for those who are so quick to believe and spread false information and fake news.
Also, narrator makes all the (useful) information easy to listen to and absorb.
Pass this book on!
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- Zeds
- 2021-08-09
Beautiful book.
Absolute clarity that is a joy to listen to. Thank you Jonathan for this eloquent and wise book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-08-03
A landmark book
I will be returning to this book often. I'm very confident that it will turn out to be one of the most significant books that I will ever read.
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- TimW
- 2021-07-27
Need a better messenger
Somewhere in this screed against personal dislikes is a message that apparently the authour thinks no-one ever realised. Well, I say catch up. Everyone wants a logical human world except the people best able to bring it around and they are furiously working against it. The populace is in defense mode. Life is more about survival at the moment so don't mind us if we put technocrat paradise on hold for a while.
It is a rambling contradiction and I barely made it through.
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- ann holtby
- 2023-03-26
Preachy
Biased treatise on the importance of relinquishing our biases. Ironic. Lots of good points but falls prey pointing fingers at conservatives.
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