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<div style="font-family:Raleway, Arial;font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6em;text-align:left;color:#333333;">"The Constitution of Knowledge" by Jonathan Rauch</div>
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<p>Our book for August is <em>The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth</em> by journalist Jonathan Rauch. <strong>Please note that we are meeting on the 4th rather than 3rd Saturday.</strong></p>
<p>From Amazon: 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>"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 <em>On Liberty</em>.” – Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic Magazine</p>
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