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  • The Constitution of Knowledge

    A Defense of Truth

    by Jonathan Rauch ...
    Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on factsIn what could be the timeliest book of the year, Rauch aims to arm his readers to engage with reason in an age of illiberalism.-*Newsweek*A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceDisinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Kindly Inquisitors

    The New Attacks on Free Thought

    by Jonathan Rauch ...
    The classic "compelling defense of free speech against its new enemies" now in an expanded edition with a foreword by George F. Will ( Kirkus Reviews)."A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Happiness Curve

    Why Life Gets Better After 50

    by Jonathan Rauch ...
    "In this warm, wise, and witty overview, Jonathan Rauch combines evidence and experience to show his fellow adults that the best is yet to come.” —Steven Pinker, bestselling author of Enlightenment NowThis book will change your life by showing you how life changes.Why does happiness get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump when you’re successful? Where does this malaise come from? And, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Gay Marriage

    Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America

    by Jonathan Rauch ...
    A leading Washington journalist argues that gay marriage is the best way to preserve and protect society's most essential institutionTwo people meet and fall in love. They get married, they become upstanding members of their community, they care for each other when one falls ill, they grow old together. What's wrong with this picture? Nothing, says Jonathan Rauch, and that's the point. If the two ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cross Purposes

    Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy

    by Jonathan Rauch ...
    Series series Politics and Culture
    Why the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracyWhat happens to American democracy if Christianity is no longer able, or no longer willing, to perform the functions on which our constitutional order depends? In this provocative book, the award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch—a lifelong atheist—reckons candidly with both the shortcomings of secularism and the corrosion of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Denial

    My 25 Years Without a Soul

    by Jonathan Rauch ...
    A young boy sitting on a piano bench realizes one day that he will never marry. At the time this seems merely a simple, if odd, fact, but as his attraction to boys grows stronger, he is pulled into a vortex of denial. Not just for one year or even ten, but for 25 years, he lives in an inverted world, a place like a photographic negative, where love is hate, attraction is envy, and childhood never ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Outnation

    A Search for the Soul of Japan

    by Jonathan Rauch ...
    In Japanese, the word for "foreign country" means "outnation." But to many Americans and Japanese, it is Japan itself, despite its increasing influence in world affairs, that is the outsider-the outnation: a country, as some have said, in the world but not of it.How different is this industrial superpower? Why did its fast climb to the pinnacle of the global economy also contain the causes of its ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Renewing America’s Civic Compact

    by Carol McNamara, Trevor Shelley, Lara Bazelon, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Rita Koganzon, Michael Lind, Paul Ludwig, Daniel Mahoney, Michael Pakaluk0, Pamela Paresky1, Jonathan Rauch2, Diana Schaub3, Suzanne Spalding4, Andrew Sullivan5, Glenn C. Loury6, Herbert Raymond McMaster7, Michael Zuckert8, Ian Rowe9, Charles Rubin0, C. Bradley Thompson1 ...
    Series series Political Theory for Today
    Renewing America’s Civic Compact addresses the chief challenges and principal tensions in the operation of our civil society in order to consider possible paths forward. The meritocracy, multiculturalism, issues of race, technology, and populist nationalism in American democracy today are some of the issues that have created more tensions to American public life. Chapters address the condition of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Human Cost of Welfare

    How the System Hurts the People It's Supposed to Help

    by Phil Harvey, Lisa Conyers ...
    Why is the welfare system failing to work for so many people? This book examines the problems with the current welfare system and proposes reforms to create a smarter, smaller system that helps people improve their lives through rewarding work.Unlike other books on welfare, this one draws on the stories of more than 100 welfare recipients who are trapped in a system that keeps them underemployed ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • American Finance for the 21st Century

    by Robert E. Litan ...
    As recently as thirty years ago, Americans lived in a financial world that today seems distant. Investment and borrowing choices were meager: virtually all transactions were conducted in cash or by check. The financial services industry was heavily regulated, as an outgrowth of the Depression, while an elaborate safety net was constructed to prevent a repeat of that dismal episode in American ... Read more

    Was $26.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Happiness Curve

    Why Life Gets Better After 50

    by Jonathan Rauch ...
    Narrated by Robert Fass ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 21 min

    "Robert Fass proves the perfect guide to exploring these concepts of age and happiness. Presenting the author’s personal journey, and his research and interviews, Robert keeps listeners engaged and tuned in to this fascinating study." — AudioFile MagazineThis audiobook will change your life by showing you how life changes.Why does happiness tend to get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Constitution of Knowledge

    A Defense of Truth

    by Jonathan Rauch ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 23 min

    Arming Americans to defend the truth from today’s war on factsDisinformation. 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 multifront challenge to America’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook