<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="" data-setdir="true" style="text-align: left;">Our book for August is <i>The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth</i> by journalist Jonathan Rauch. The discussion will take place on Saturday, August 24 at 2:30 pm at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, located at 303 Washington Ave., New Haven. <span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><b style=""><font color="#9d1811">Please note that we are meeting on the 4th rather than 3rd Saturday of the month.</font></b> </span></span></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div style="text-align: center;" dir="" data-setdir="true"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:5178f972-43c6-d316-4916-b4fb3497cb60@yahoo.com" class="yahoo-inline-image" draggable="false" style="letter-spacing: -0.02em; max-width: 288px; width: 50%;" data-id="<5178f972-43c6-d316-4916-b4fb3497cb60@yahoo.com>"></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">From Amazon:</div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>In this path-breaking 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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>"It’s a great book, truly important in the pantheon of defenses of free speech, free thought, and the commitment to truth, the perfect counter to post-truth claims on the left and populist truth claims on the right. Destined to be a classic, in the tradition of John Stuart Mill’s <i>On Liberty</i>.” – Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic Magazine</div><div><br></div></div></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Hope to see you on the 24th,</span><br></div><div>Kevin & Paula</div><div><br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>