Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact.
Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and
opinion, and fidelity to reputable sources of factual information
are all in alarming decline. A 2018 report published by the RAND
Corporation labeled this problem "truth decay" and Andrew J.
Hoffman lays the challenge of fixing it at the door of the academy.
But, as he points out, academia is prevented from carrying this out
due to its own existential crisis—a crisis of relevance.
Scholarship rarely moves very far beyond the walls of the academy
and is certainly not accessing the primarily civic spaces it needs
to reach in order to mitigate truth corruption. In this brief but
compelling book, Hoffman draws upon existing literature and
personal experience to bring attention to the problem of academic
insularity—where it comes from and where, if left to grow
unchecked, it will go—and argues for the emergence of a more
publicly and politically engaged scholar. This book is a call to
make that path toward public engagement more acceptable and
legitimate for those who do it; to enlarge the tent to be inclusive
of multiple ways that one enacts the role of academic scholar in
today's world.
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