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DESCRIPTION:**Tune in to the livestream on Facebook or on YouTube.**\n\nJoi
 n us for the virtual book launch of Max Bell School professor Andrew Potte
 r's ON DECLINE! We'll be streaming live on Thursday\, September 9 at 5:30 
 p.m. ET to celebrate Potter's new book. Andrew Potter will be be joined in
  conversation by Jonathan Montpetit\, journalist with CBC. Stick around un
 til the end\, and you could win a copy of ON DECLINE.\n\nRegister now to r
 eceive a link to the livestream.\n\nAbout ON DECLINE\n\nThe death of David
  Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war
  in Syria\, the Zika virus\, terrorist attacks in Brussels and Nice\, the 
 Brexit vote—and the election of Donald Trump. The end-of-year wraps declar
 ed 2016 “the worst … ever.” Four even more troubling years later\, the que
 stion of our apocalypse had devolved into a tired social media cliché. But
  when COVID-19 hit\, journalist and professor of public policy Andrew Pott
 er started to wonder: what if The End isn’t one big event\, but a long ser
 ies of smaller ones?\n\nIn On Decline\, Potter surveys the current problem
 s and likely future of Western civilization (spoiler: it’s not great). Eco
 nomic stagnation and the slowing of scientific innovation. Falling birth r
 ates and environmental degradation. The devastating effects of cultural no
 stalgia and the havoc wreaked by social media on public discourse. Most ac
 utely\, the various failures of Western governments in their responses to 
 the COVID-19 pandemic. If the legacy of the Enlightenment and its virtues—
 reason\, logic\, science\, evidence—has run its course\, how and why has i
 t happened? And where do we go from here?\n\nOrder ON DECLINE.\n\nAbout An
 drew Potter\n\nAndrew Potter is an associate professor (professional) at t
 he Max Bell School of Public Policy. A former journalist\, between 2011 an
 d 2016 Andrew Potter was managing editor and then editor in chief of the O
 ttawa Citizen\, and from 2006 to 2011 he was a public affairs columnist fo
 r 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: H
 ow 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.
 \n\nAbout Jonathan Montpetit\n\nJonathan Montpetit is a senior digital jou
 rnalist with CBC Montreal\, where he covers Quebec politics. He is spendin
 g the 2021-2022 academic year as a journalism fellow at Massey College.\n
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SUMMARY:ON DECLINE Virtual Launch
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/channels/event/decline-virtual-laun
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