Fact, Fiction, and the Fight
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In this episode, David and Sarah continue their August tradition of looking outside the world of legal nerdery with Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and author of the book The Constitution of Knowledge. Rauch has been warning about the dangers to free speech for a long time. What is the state of free speech? And how much of a threat is illiberalism?
Show Notes:
Great discussion! People who were offended and quit listening are in a bubble that needs to be burst. Very fair and balanced discussion. This might be the 5th or 6th time I have heard Rauch and yet this was like new. Thanks to David and Sarah’s grand style. Particularly like the cancer vs. heart attack analogy as a simple heuristic I can employ in many ways. Awesome!
Thanks
I really appreciated the part towards the end when Rauch brings up his take on Dr. Collins at NIH and how while he has a difficult time comprehending how he can be both a brilliant scientist as well as a practicing Christian. Rauch said that he's come to believe that perhaps he's like someone who's colorblind - able to go through the world just fine, while people like Collins perceive things in ways he doesn't' and maybe he's missing something.
His quote was:
"Francis Collins, who can do great science on weekdays and then go to church and pray devoutly on weekends and not feel a conflict has the ability to perceive frequencies in life, dimensions of faith, that I don't and can't. And that's to his benefit probably, because he access to two worlds and I have access to only one."
At a time when the Church is very frequently mischaracterized as being "against science", it was refreshing to hear this point made so eloquently. That it was made by an atheist makes it even more noteworthy.