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. He arms listeners with actionable steps to enable every American to help defend objective truth against the multifront challenge to our ability to distinguish fact from fiction.
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