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Journalism, essays, and   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59   60   61   62   63  64 consecutive years without a MacArthur prize

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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 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

About Jonathan Rauch

  • Bio
  • High-rez photo (credit: Stephen Voss)
  • Senior fellow, Brookings Institution
  • Contributing writer, The Atlantic
  • Book a speech

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...

The longevity revolution

The first American to live to age 150 may already have been born. The concept of aging needs a fundamental rethink...

Liberalism rocks! Defend it!

Liberalism is the greatest social technology ever invented. Yet too many liberals accept bogus charges against it. Enough, already...

The world is realigning

The wars in Gaza and Ukraine show how the Axis of Resistance plans to exhaust and defeat the Western alliance. It might work...

America should apologize to gays

The campaign to erase homosexuality was America’s purest experiment in totalitarianism. Yet we are forgetting it...and repeating it...

Trump’s second term

We know the plan. It's Orbán, not Mussolini—and that’s more than scary enough...

Thank you, Justice O’Connor

She was the first woman on the Supreme Court and, alas, its last politician. Also, my neighbor growing up...

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...

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