JonathanRauch.com

Journalism, essays, and   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59   60   61  62 consecutive years without a MacArthur prize

My Photo

Journalism & Speeches

  • Selected articles
  • Why we have political chaos
  • How science makes us free
  • Why I was(n’t) gay
  • Why we have universities
  • Why we change our minds
  • Why we have free speech
  • Why we have God
  • Why we have science
  • ‘Government in 2020’
  • My marriage odyssey
  • My philosophy of everything

Books

  • : The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50

    The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50
    Why humans—and chimps—reboot in midlife

  • : Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition

    Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition
    The free-speech classic, updated and expanded

  • : Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America

    Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America
    The case for marriage, gay and straight

  • : Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working

    Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working
    Causes and cures of demosclerosis

  • : The Outnation: A Search for the Soul of Japan

    The Outnation: A Search for the Soul of Japan
    Out of print but getable from Amazon

  • : American Finance for the 21st Century

    American Finance for the 21st Century
    Co-authored with Robert E. Litan

  • Jonathan Rauch: Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul

    Jonathan Rauch: Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul
    When love is hate and childhood never ends: a memoir

  • Rauch, Jonathan: The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

    Rauch, Jonathan: The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
    Saving reality from cancelers, trolls, and Trump

The Constitution of Knowledge

The reality wars are only just beginning. Lying, trolling, and canceling are powerful weapons of chaos and conformity. But the reality-based community can fight back...

A nuclear revolution...maybe

Nuclear power is at the threshold of a breakthrough. All the industry needs to do is get its act together...

My big libertarian error

Spontaneous order doesn’t happen spontaneously. We need institutions, and classical liberals have neglected them...

A historic victory

If you’ve heard the Respect for Marriage Act is just a tweak, think again. It’s a win for gays, for religious liberty, and for democracy...

Uncanceling ourselves

Cancel culture uses sophisticated cognitive hacks to dominate our discourse. But breaking free is not as hard as it seems...

A DOMA for abortion

Letting states go their separate ways, without manipulating or undermining each other, is the best way forward on abortion...

How queer hijacked trans

Radical gender ideology stole the transgender movement. Now trans moderates must steal it back...

Trump colluded. And won.

By changing the subject to the Steele dossier and other irrelevancies, Trump brilliantly flipped the hoax narrative...

The reality ally

MAGA has launched a full-scale disinformation attack our elections. Standing in the way: one lowly county recorder...

A recount? Not really

The so-called vote audit in Arizona is textbook propaganda theater. Fortunately, local Republicans are showing how to upstage it...

The heart of compromise

King Solomon was wrong about compromise. James Madison was right. Utah’s gays and Mormons proved it...

Fighting back, at last

After five years of disorientation and self-doubt, liberals are finding their voices and pushing back against radical wokeness...

The Trump amendments

Far from being a constitutional lightweight, Trump did more than any other president to turn Congress into an advisory body...

The war on professionalism

Lawyers, doctors, scientists, and civil servants saved U.S. democracy from Trump. That’s why he waged relentless war on them...

Trump’s post-election triumph

He may have lost the presidency and been beaten by the Democrats. But Trump won the propaganda war and put the Republicans to rout...

Trump’s firehose of falsehood

Trump and his propaganda machine have brought Russian-style disinformation to the U.S., on a massive scale and with unprecedented success...

Are you being canceled?

Cancel culture is not free speech, but they can be hard to tell apart. Fortunately, you can take this handy test...

It’s the GOP, not just Trump

Guess which party is more under the influence of insurgent protesters and inexperienced newcomers? Hint: it's not the Democrats...

The plus-sum solution

The Fairness for All Act proposes a historic compromise on Q rights and religious liberty, and the Supreme Court has set the stage...

The running mate Biden needs

A former governor with gravitas, federal experience, and a strong relationship with Joe Biden. Introducing Janet Napolitano...

It’s George Wallace’s GOP

Trump is only the most recent emanation of the insurgent movement Wallace launched in the 1960s. And he wont be the last...

Next »

About Jonathan Rauch

  • Bio
  • High-rez photo
  • Senior fellow, Brookings Institution
  • Contributing writer, The Atlantic
  • Book a speech