{"id":4558,"date":"2021-08-06T13:53:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T17:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4558"},"modified":"2021-08-06T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T17:53:06","slug":"truth-and-governance-a-new-book-offers-an-antidote-to-the-misinformation-imperiling-our-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/truth-and-governance-a-new-book-offers-an-antidote-to-the-misinformation-imperiling-our-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth and governance: A new book offers an antidote to the misinformation imperiling our politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"4559\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/truth-and-governance-a-new-book-offers-an-antidote-to-the-misinformation-imperiling-our-politics\/rauch-constitution-of-knowledge\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Rauch-Constitution-of-Knowledge.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1707,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rauch-Constitution-of-Knowledge\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Rauch-Constitution-of-Knowledge-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Rauch-Constitution-of-Knowledge-683x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Rauch-Constitution-of-Knowledge-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Rauch-Constitution-of-Knowledge-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Rauch-Constitution-of-Knowledge-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Rauch-Constitution-of-Knowledge-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Rauch-Constitution-of-Knowledge-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Rauch-Constitution-of-Knowledge-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Rauch-Constitution-of-Knowledge.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the digital revolution dawned a few decades ago, commentators peddled optimism about its potential to expand humanity\u2019s collective knowledge. Needless to say, that optimism has hit a few snags. The Internet has become a bazaar of information hawkers, where expertise is looked on with suspicion, traffic in hooey is high, and truth is harder and harder to discern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Jonathan Rauch puts it in his new book, The Constitution of Knowledge, consumers of online content feel \u201cepistemic helplessness,\u201d the \u201cinability to know where to turn for truth&#8221;&#8230; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/review-of-the-constitution-of-knowledge-by-jonathan-rauch\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the digital revolution dawned a few decades ago, commentators peddled optimism about its potential to expand humanity\u2019s collective knowledge. Needless to say, that optimism has hit a few snags. The Internet has become a bazaar of information hawkers, where expertise is looked on with suspicion, traffic in hooey is high, and truth is harder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[64],"tags":[235],"class_list":["post-4558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-and-governance","tag-city-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1bw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}