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Jonathan Rauch – A Liberal Defense of Free Speech
Description
0:00 What’s wrong with cancelation?
13:28 A defense of Charles Murray
21:24 Cancelation and the closet
28:08 Jonathan’s book, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
39:35 Jonathan: “The marketplace of ideas” is a necessary but insufficient metaphor
42:51 Is Trump an agent of disinformation?
54:22 What the woke and MAGA crowds have in common
59:41 Why Jonathan is hopeful about the constitution of knowledge
Recorded February 6, 2022
Links and Readings
Jonathan’s latest book, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
Jonathan’s book, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought
Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein’s book, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
Jeff Gerth’s Four-Party Columbia Journalism Review series on Trump and the press
Stanford’s Internet Observatory
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