Freedman Lecture: ‘Staying Real: The War on Truth – And How to Win It’

On Wednesday, April 20, at 11:00 a.m. in the Amherst Room of the Campus Center, Jonathan Rauch will deliver the 2022 Freedman Lecture.

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In this talk, “Staying Real: The War on Truth – And How to Win It,” the author of ”The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth” explains the goals and tactics of the war on truth. He shows who's behind it and how it works. Most important, he reveals the inner workings and hidden strengths of our Constitution of Knowledge—and how to capitalize on them to fight back. 

Rauch is one of the country’s most versatile and original writers on government, public policy, and gay marriage, among other subjects. A senior fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington and contributing writer of The Atlantic, he is the author of eight books and many articles and has received the magazine industry’s two leading prizes — the National Magazine Award (the industry’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize) and the National Headliner Award. 

The Freedman Lecture series is funded by Robert Rosen ’69 and Nancy Rosen ’70, and is named for Rosen’s parents, Max and Ruth Freedman. Initiated in 2016, the lecture series brings scholars and practitioners to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences to engage contemporary societal issues from different vantage points, leaving the audience with a richer appreciation of differing viewpoints and an example of how reasonable people can disagree without being disagreeable.