Jonathan Rauch, the Kindest Inquisitor

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

News, Politics

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In a world increasingly subjected to discussions of Jewish space lasers, fake birth certificates, and luciferian pedophile cabals, the truth could use a spirited defense. Jonathan Rauch, whose work Jonah has cited on countless occasions, finally appears on The Remnant today to offer exactly that. The two discuss Jonathan’s new book, The Constitution of Knowledge, which explores how all Americans can defend free inquiry and objective reality. Are trolling and propaganda as American as apple pie? Do Marxists run a monopoly on disinformation? And should loyal listeners abandon all hope of Jonah ever publishing that “Liberal Fascism Reconsidered” essay? Show Notes: - Jonathan’s page at Brookings, where they’re always eating candy - The Constitution of Knowledge, Jonathan’s new book - Kindly Inquisitors, Jonathan’s second book and a Jonah favorite - “You didn’t build that.” - Jonathan in defense of free speech - That other time Trump ran for president - Michael Flynn’s call for a Myanmar-style coup - Trump thinks he’ll be “reinstated” as president in August - David French debates Christopher Rufo on critical race theory in public schools - Jonathan on Trump’s firehose of falsehood (not a euphemism) - “The Constitution of Knowledge” - Jonathan’s 2018 essay - Facebook’s new oversight board - Twitter vs. Dave Weigel - Jonah, Saul Alinsky, and the contemporary right - Alice Lloyd’s lengthy profile of Dinesh D’Souza - Woodrow Wilson’s propaganda machine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.1	Well ladies and gentlemen
0:16.5	Can I please have your attention
0:18.5	Thank you
0:27.5	Greetings to your listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant podcast brought you by the dispatch and dispatch media
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0:43.7	A man paid number of the dispatch community. So I'm very excited about today's podcast
0:51.4	We have a first-timer here. So he's got a ways to go before he gets his gold jacket, but
0:57.7	He is I've been a fan of his for a long time first met him in the early 90s and when he was doing
1:04.6	some work on
1:06.6	kindly inquisitors a fantastic book at AI when I was a young policy known there and
1:11.5	and
1:13.0	one of the things about
1:15.0	Jonathan Roush our guest is
1:17.8	Washington is full of people who as they say are
1:22.7	Often an error and never in doubt and one of the wonderful things about Jonathan is he's rarely in error
1:28.8	But often in doubt he is a good skeptical person who likes to question his own
1:35.0	assumptions
1:36.2	his own biases. He's a
1:38.2	a lot like Russ Roberts that way is that part of his entire philosophy is to acknowledge that people get things wrong
1:46.2	And so you should be careful and check that maybe something maybe too good to be true and one thing that is not too good to be true is what he calls our
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