WASHINGTON – On the road again, America’s feral president swerved into a denunciation of a nonexistent bill – “It’s called ‘the open borders bill'” – that, he thundered, “every single Democrat” in the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jonathan Rauch and his new book "The Constitution of Knowledge." (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Dan ...
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth, by Jonathan Rauch (Brookings Institution Press, 280 pp., $27.99) As the digital revolution dawned a few decades ago, commentators peddled optimism ...
The experts who staff America’s universities, newspapers, law firms and government agencies are sufficiently numerous and powerful to constitute a class—the knowledge class. It isn’t exactly an honor ...
Disinformation. Social media trolling. Shutting down speech. What do these realities of modern life have in common? Jonathan Rauch says they're all signs of a society in the midst of an epistemic ...
The Constitution of Knowledge. By Jonathan Rauch. Brookings Institution Press; 280 pages; $27.99 and £22.50 IF THIS REVIEW contains errors, they will probably be spotted by the first editor who reads ...
On the road again, and full of indignation about, or perhaps admiration for, what he called “made-up” and “fabricated” Democratic accusations during the recent judicial confirmation turmoil, America’s ...
In his urgent new book, Jonathan Rauch shows that Western civilization’s capacity for ascertaining, testing, and sharing the truth depends in no small part on four key institutional communities: ...
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