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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

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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 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

Nothing to fear but...

America's prosperity, peace, and safety would be the envy of any country. So why are so many Americans so angry and scared?...

Republicans might dump Trump

Any number of factors could collapse GOP support for Trump. Forcing him to quit would be good for the party, and for democracy, too...

I’m not LGBTQ. No one is.

The awkward acronym embodies what has gone wrong with identity politics. Instead, how about just Q?...

Star Trek saw Trump coming

The classic 1960s TV series has a lot to teach us about the 45th president and his sociopathic universe...

How reform really happens

Legalizing marijuana and gay marriage seemed impossible. Yet they succeeded by learning from the same mistakes...

Trump’s war on reality

The president and his troll army are out to demolish our Constitution of Knowledge. Here’s their battle plan and how to fight back...

If we’re so rich, how come we’re not happy?

Because happiness is relative and local. Which is also why conservatives need to start worrying about inequality...

A judicial Masterpiece

In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Justice Anthony Kennedy shows why he is America’s shrewdest politician—and gays’ best friend...

Rediscovering wisdom

Science has uncovered the secrets of the most precious of human qualities—just when politics has forgotten it...

The reinvention of aging

School. Work. Retire. Die. The traditional model for aging no longer matches reality. Fortunately, the future is already here...

Tribalism strikes back!

Modern humans thought we had tribalism licked. Instead, it has licked us. A new book explains the consequences...

Bumblecore politics

Pumping amateurs into politics and bypassing careerists and party gatekeepers is a bad idea, especially for progressives...

Liberalism’s identity hell

The trouble with liberals’ identity-politics obsession is that they aren’t really doing politics at all...

Is Trump ‘treasonous’?

Steve Bannon went and used the T-word. By showing what’s at stake, he annoyed lawyers but did democracy a favor...

Re-engineering politicians

Parties and officeholders used to recruit and vet political candidates. Now  activist groups select our politicians, long before we vote...

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  • Senior fellow, Brookings Institution
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