"In this warm, wise, and witty overview, Jonathan Rauch combines evidence and experience to show his fellow adults that the best is yet to come.” —Steven Pinker, bestselling author of Enlightenment NowThis book will change your life by showing you how life changes.Why does happiness get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump when you’re successful? Where does this malaise come from? And, most importantly, w...

Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on factsIn what could be the timeliest book of the year, Rauch aims to arm his readers to engage with reason in an age of illiberalism.-*Newsweek*A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceDisinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little...

Why the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracyWhat happens to American democracy if Christianity is no longer able, or no longer willing, to perform the functions on which our constitutional order depends? In this provocative book, the award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch—a lifelong atheist—reckons candidly with both the shortcomings of secularism and the corrosion of Christianity.Thin Christianity, as Rauch calls the mainline church, h...

"Robert Fass proves the perfect guide to exploring these concepts of age and happiness. Presenting the author’s personal journey, and his research and interviews, Robert keeps listeners engaged and tuned in to this fascinating study." — AudioFile MagazineThis audiobook will change your life by showing you how life changes.Why does happiness tend to get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump when you’re successful? Where doe...

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 ...

The classic "compelling defense of free speech against its new enemies" now in an expanded edition with a foreword by George F. Will ( Kirkus Reviews)."A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will." So writes ...

A leading Washington journalist argues that gay marriage is the best way to preserve and protect society's most essential institutionTwo people meet and fall in love. They get married, they become upstanding members of their community, they care for each other when one falls ill, they grow old together. What's wrong with this picture? Nothing, says Jonathan Rauch, and that's the point. If the two people are of the same sex, why should this chain of events be any les...

Arming Americans to defend the truth from today’s war on factsDisinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multifront challenge to America’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood.In 2016, Russian trolls and bots nearly drowned the truth...

What happens to American democracy if Christianity is no longer able, or no longer willing, to perform the functions on which our constitutional order depends? In this provocative book, the award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch—a lifelong atheist—reckons candidly with both the shortcomings of secularism and the corrosion of Christianity. Thin Christianity, as Rauch calls the mainline church, has been unable to inspire and retain believers. Worse, a Church of Fear has distorted white evan...

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,...

In Japanese, the word for "foreign country" means "outnation." But to many Americans and Japanese, it is Japan itself, despite its increasing influence in world affairs, that is the outsider-the outnation: a country, as some have said, in the world but not of it.How different is this industrial superpower? Why did its fast climb to the pinnacle of the global economy also contain the causes of its subsequent fall? And what can we all-Americans and Japanese alike-learn from the Japan...

停止才是谷底，繼續就是上坡。幸福曲線教你找回熱情與潛能，挺過中年低潮，人生會越來越好。Amazon4.5顆星好評推薦本書作者強納森．勞赫畢業於耶魯大學，是全球知名智庫布魯金斯學會的資深研究員。身為典型的人生勝利組，卻在中年之際，莫名感到自我懷疑與焦慮，他不知這種不安是從何而來的，又是否會結束。他從心理學、經濟學、社會學、神經學等各方面探詢答案，並採訪眾多知名權威專家及各行各業的中年朋友，結果發現人生的幸福指數呈U型。多數人都認為童年是一生中最無憂無慮的時期，隨著年齡增長，煩惱愈多，對生活的滿意度也愈低，這種憂鬱感會在中年「觸底」，等過了這段時間，幸福感又會逐漸攀升，這就是「幸福曲線」理論。中年人的情緒低落，或許和自我期待與現實間的落差有關。在生命的中點，人們會回過頭檢視自己的人生軌跡，像是在工作、關係、財富等不同領域，自己是否達到了理想中的成就，只是答案多半不盡如人意。尤其是在社群媒體蓬勃發展的時代，我們追求的不是「幸福」，而是「比別人幸福」，於是不快樂成了常態。不過，幸而憂鬱狀...