Reviews Write New Review
Location
Booking Fee
Fee: $##,###Get Pricing
Virtual Fee: $##,###Get Pricing
[email protected]
Jonathan 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.
Rauch is also the author of a memoir, "Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul", and books on Japan and financial-system reform. He has written many articles, on everything from government and public policy to introversion to animal rights, for publications including The Atlantic, National Journal, The New Republic, The Economist, Reason, Harper’s, Fortune, Reader’s Digest, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times newspaper and magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, Slate, Salon, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Public Interest, The Advocate, The Daily, and others. He has appeared as a guest on many radio and television shows, including NBC’s Meet the Press and NPR’s NewsHour.
Rauch takes pride in being a thoughtful, dynamic, and well prepared speaker, focused on giving sponsors outstanding value for money and communicating important and often counterintuitive ideas to his audiences in a direct, personal way. His keynote speech for the American Academy of Home Care Physicians was rated as “phenomenal” by the sponsor.
Videos
Speech Topics
Gay and lesbian rights, the struggle for marriage equality, and the growing debate about religious liberty, the subject of many articles and his 2004 book Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America
Why America’s politics and government are in such trouble, the subject of his bestselling Atlantic cover article “How American Politics Went Insane” and his seminal book Government’s End: Why Washington Stopped Working
Why midlife malaise hits so many people — and chimps! — and how we can all do more to help, the subject of his 2018 book The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50
Freedom of speech and why it’s especially important to LGBT people and other minorities, the subject of his classic book Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought
How to fight back against trolling, disinformation, canceling, and other cutting-edge propaganda tactics that seek to unmoor our country from reality—the subject of his 2021 book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
Related Speakers View all
Scott Winship
Former Fellow at the Manhattan Institue & the Brooki...
|
|
Stephen Hess
Senior Fellow Emeritus in Governance Studies at The ...
|
|
Richard Lempert
Visiting Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookin...
|
|
Darrell M. West
Vice President at the Brookings Institution & Award-...
|
|
Christopher H. Foreman, Jr.
Affiliated with the Governance Studies Program since...
|
|
William A. Galston
Wall Street Journal Columnist; Ezra K. Zilkha Chair ...
|
|
Cynthia Schneider
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands
|
|
E.J. Dionne, Jr.
Syndicated Washington Post Columnist; Political Anal...
|
|
Stuart S. Taylor, Jr.
Author and freelance journalist focusing on legal an...
|
|
Michael P. McDonald
Assistant Professor of Government and Politics in th...
|
|
Thomas E. Mann
Senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings...
|
|
Benjamin Wittes
Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings...
|
|
R. Kent Weaver
Senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at t...
|
|
Caroline Moser
Anthropologist and social policy specialist with mor...
|
|
Diana Mutz
Nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
|
|
Michal Grinstein-Weiss
Associate professor in the George Warren Brown Schoo...
|
|
Scott W. Allard
Associate professor in the University of Chicago's S...
|
|
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas
Nonresident senior fellow with Governance Studies an...
|
|
John Hudak
Fellow in Governance Studies
|
|
Bill Frenzel
Guest scholar at the Brookings Institution
|