93 - Jonathan Rauch - In Defence of Truth [Public Limited Version]

For more on Jonathan:
https://www.brookings.edu/experts/jonathan-rauch/

You can preorder The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth (2021) from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Constitution-Knowledge-Jonathan-Rauch-author/dp/0815738862

Other books:
The Outnation: Search for the Soul of Japan (1992); Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought (1993); Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government (1994); Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working (1999); Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul (2003); Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America (2004); Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracy (2015); The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50 (2018).

Follow Jonathan on Twitter @jon_rauch

Further References

Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2013)

Matt McManus, The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics (2020)

The Spiral of Silence A Theory of Public Opinion (weebly.com):
https://msp1021.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/8/4/11840812/noelle-neumann-1974-journal_of_communication.pdf

"Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male E" by Dan M. Kahan:
https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/101/

Timestamps
01:26 Knowledge is a social phenomenon, the social network of liberal science
15:58 Compromise as a spur to creativity
18:58 Fallibilism vs. scepticism
23:11 Trolling and cancel culture: two kinds of manipulation used to spoof consensus
30:02 The spiral of silence
35:10 How social media tools are ideally suited for manipulation of the information environment
36:52 The importance of subjecting all views to criticism and following that process wherever it leads.
39:01 Conservatives and liberals: parallel epistemic communities
44:27 Reality-based journalism is less lucrative
46:26 Identity-protective cognition
48:21 They’re not ten feet tall—we are: ways of combating disinformation.