Come join your fellow bookworms for great conversation on thought-provoking reads! We’ll be hosting our next gathering on Saturday, May 6th @ 10:00am. Our upcoming selection is The Constitution of Knowledge by Jonathan Rauch
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. In this pathbreaking 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.
