Defending The Constitution of Knowledge: Jonathan Rauch

<strong>Podcast</strong>: <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/how-do-we-fix-it-daviescontent-D2GjIlLRm4o/">How Do We Fix It?</a> (LS 43 &middot; TOP 1.5% <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/listen-score/"><small>what is this?</small></a>)<br><strong>Episode</strong>: <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/e/5263498ec9b5400a8b6cbc7b5f343c50/">Defending The Constitution of Knowledge: Jonathan Rauch</a><br><strong>Pub date</strong>: 2021-07-16<br><br><img src="https://production.listennotes.com/podcasts/how-do-we-fix-it-daviescontent-3Z-5JSLk6XR-D2GjIlLRm4o.300x300.jpg" width="150" height="150"></img><br><p>Democracies around the world are under threat from populist movements, demagogues, and dogmatic extremists who use disinformation, conspiracy theories, shaming, cancel culture, and other tactics&nbsp;to weaponize social media and challenge our ability to distinguish&nbsp;fact from fiction and truth&nbsp;from falsehood.</p><p><br></p><p>In&nbsp;<a href="https://www.brookings.edu/book/the-constitution-of-knowledge/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">his new book</a>, our guest, best-selling author, journalist, scholar, and public intellectual,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.brookings.edu/book/the-constitution-of-knowledge/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jonathan Rauch</a>, offers a stirring defense of the constitution of knowledge— our social&nbsp;system of checks and balances that is crucial for turning disagreement into truth.</p><p><br></p><p>"This global network of people hunting for each others' errors is far and away the greatest&nbsp;human technology&nbsp;ever invented," Jonathan tells us in this episode of "How Do We Fix It?" The constitution of knowledge, he says, "is a global conversation of people looking for truth, and more especially, looking for the error."</p><p><br></p><p>With a deep knowledge of history and politics, Jonathan arms listeners and readers with a better understanding of what they can do to protect&nbsp;truth and free inquiry from threats as far away from Russia