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25. Jonathan Rauch - The Constitution of Knowledge

Ideas Having Sex

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Is There a Constitution of Knowledge?

Voters need to more consistently punish politicians who brazenly lie, for example. We will never live in a country where everyone agrees on facts because disagreement is where knowledge comes from. Congress just quietly passed a bill that makes it harder for a politicized president to fire inspectors general. So you need to have all those institutional defenses throughout government.

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