Can We Be One Nation Again?
Channel: Purdue University
Date: 2021-01-20

Featuring:
Jonathan Rauch, Senior Fellow – Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution
Mitch Daniels, Purdue University President

Rauch will discuss his forthcoming book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth, in which he describes how Americans can help defend objective truth and free inquiry from today’s war on facts.

Rauch is the author of six books and many articles on public policy, culture, and government. He is a contributing editor of The Atlantic and recipient of the 2005 National Magazine Award. His award-winning column, “Social Studies,” appeared from 1998 to 2010 in National Journal. He has also written for The New Republic, The Economist, Reason, Harper’s, Fortune, Reader’s Digest, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, Slate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Public Interest, The Advocate, The Daily, and others. 

In his 1994 book Demosclerosis—revised and republished in 2000 as Government’s End: Why Washington Stopped Working—he argues that America’s government is becoming gradually less flexible and effective with time, and suggests ways to treat the malady. 

His Brookings publications include the 2015 ebook Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracy. In 2013, he published Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul, a memoir of his struggle with his sexuality, brought out as an ebook from The Atlantic Books. He also also the author of Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America, published in 2004 by Times Books (Henry Holt).