Description: COVID-19 has exposed weaknesses across all aspects of society. What can it tell us about the reality of Western civilization?
Brief description: Andrew Potter is an associate professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy. A former journalist, between 2011 and 2016 Andrew Potter was managing editor and then editor in chief of the Ottawa Citizen, and from 2006 to 2011 he was a public affairs columnist for Maclean's Magazine. He is also a former Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. Potter is the author of The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves, and the co-author, with Joseph Heath, of the best-selling book The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't be Jammed.
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Praise for On Decline
"Terse, direct, provocative"
-Mark Abley, The Walrus
"Like its historic ancestors, On Decline deserves a wide general audience and should be required reading for the incoming federal government."
--Winnipeg Free Press
Praise for Andrew Potter's The Authenticity Hoax
"Potter's broad-ranging survey makes a good case that the authenticist fantasy is deeply embedded in the culture."
--Wall Street Journal
"[Andrew Potter] offers a shrewd and lively discussion peppered with pop culture references and a stimulating reappraisal of the romantic strain in modern life."
--Publishers Weekly
"Potter weaves elements of history, philosophy and pop culture together in a book that will leave an impression even if it doesn't necessarily show us the path. Is Andrew Potter one of the great thinkers of our age? He may well be: this is great stuff."
--January Magazine