Bücher von Jonathan Rauch

Fakten oder Fake-News, Wahrheit oder Lüge: Woher wissen wir, was wir wissen? Die Antworten darauf sind enorm wichtig für eine funktionierende Gesellschaft, eine lebendige Demokratie. Auf der "rechten" Seite verbreiten Trolle reaktionäre Propaganda im Netz. Und "links" sorgt die Cancel-Culture dafür, dass an Universitäten der offene Diskurs über sensible Themen wie "Gender" oder "Race" verstummt. Für Propagandaexperten ist klar, dass beide als Techniken eines Informationskrieges bezeichnet werden können. Sie manipulieren das gesellschaftliche und mediale Umfeld, um politischen Nutzen daraus zu ziehen. Jonathan Rauch erklärt und verteidigt die Verfassung der Erkenntnis: Regeln, die die liberale Wissenschaft definieren und die realitätsbasierte Gemeinschaft organisieren. Sie stehen unter dem Dauerbeschuss von Widersachern, die nicht müde werden, immer wieder neue Angriffsstrategien auszuprobieren. Ein Buch, das erläutert, was zu tun ist, um die Wahrheit zu verteidigen - ganz besonders in Zeiten wie diesen.

A young boy sitting on a piano bench realizes one day that he will never marry. At the time this seems merely a simple, if odd, fact, but as his attraction to boys grows stronger, he is pulled into a vortex of denial. Not just for one year or even ten, but for 25 years, he lives in an inverted world, a place like a photographic negative, where love is hate, attraction is envy, and childhood never ends. He comes to think of himself as a kind of monster-until one day, seemingly miraculously, the world turns itself upright and the possibility of love floods in. Equal parts Oliver Sacks and George Orwell, with a dash of Woody Allen, Jonathan Rauch's memoir is by turns harrowing and funny, a grippingly intimate journey through a bizarre maze of self-torment that ends with an unexpected discovery. Many people, gay and straight, have lived through their own versions of this story, seeking to twist their personality in directions it just wouldn't go. Not all have been lucky enough to escape. First published in 2013, Denial has been revised for this new edition, which includes a new afterword by the author.

"Thoughtful and convincingly argued . . . Rauch's impressive book is as enthusiastic an encomium to marriage as anyone, gay or straight, could write." -David J. Garrow, The Washington Post Book World In May 2004, gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts, but it remains a divisive and contentious issue across America. As liberals and conservatives mobilize around this issue, no one has come forward with a more compelling, comprehensive, and readable case for gay marriage than Jonathan Rauch. In this book, he puts forward a clear and honest manifesto explaining why gay marriage is important-even crucial-to the health of marriage in America today, grounding his argument in commonsense, mainstream values and confronting social conservatives on their own turf. Marriage, he observes, is more than a bond between individuals; it also links them to the community at large. Excluding some people from the prospect of marriage not only is harmful to them but also is corrosive of the institution itself.Gay marriage, he shows, is a "win-win-win" for strengthening the bonds that tie us together and for remaining true to our national heritage of fairness and humaneness toward all.