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🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this episode, David and Sarah continue their August tradition of looking outside the world of legal nerdery with Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and author of the book The Constitution of Knowledge. Rauch has been warning about the dangers to free speech for a long time. What is the state of free speech? And how much of a threat is illiberalism? Show Notes: -Rauch’s book The Constitution of Knowledge -Rauch’s book Kindly Inquisitors

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast.
0:07.4	This edition, this is a special edition on two counts.
0:10.5	One, we have a special guest, Jonathan Roush, senior fellow and government studies at Brookings,
0:17.2	winner of the 2005 National Magazine Award, author most recently of the Constitution of
0:23.6	Knowledge, a defense of truth, author of a number of other books in one which of course
0:29.6	we're going to we're going to talk about as well as his most recent one.
0:33.3	And this is also a great podcast, a special podcast because you know what?
0:38.1	I know Jonathan Roush and Sarah does not which one-
0:42.4	David has only mentioned this over and over and over again, folks.
0:46.1	It never gets old, Sarah.
0:49.1	It does not get old.
0:51.0	It's fantastic, in fact.
0:52.4	But anyway, we're not going to talk about that.
0:54.6	We're going to talk a ton about free speech, the culture of truth, and we're going to
1:00.6	talk about free speech in a way that's a little bit different from the way we normally
1:03.7	talk about free speech and advisory opinions.
1:05.6	We're not going to be talking about the law.
1:08.3	We're going to be talking about the culture.
1:12.3	And so what I want to just start with, John, welcome.
1:16.4	Thank you for coming on advisory opinions.
1:18.2	And let's start with your most recent book, the Constitution of Knowledge.
1:23.1	I guess the first question to ask is, what is the Constitution of Knowledge?
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