Lurking behind a well-known fact—rapid urbanization in the developing world has left huge populations living in informal areas—lies a startling fact. Tens of millions of people live under some form of criminal governance. In this Odyssey Lecture, the PPE Center brings together two experts to discuss these issues to better understand conflict, peace, and crime in Latin America.

Brown University hosted author Jonathan Rauch to discuss his book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth in which he explains the goals and tactics of the war on truth. who’s behind it and how it works. In this lecture he reveals the inner workings and hidden strengths of our precious Constitution of Knowledge—and how to capitalize on them to fight back.

Brown University hosted author and historian, Dr. Heather Ann Thompson who has written extensively on policing, mass incarceration and the current criminal justice system. Watch from our video archive as she discusses her Pulitzer Prize-winning and Bancroft Prize-winning book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016).