The Decadent Society: America Before and After the Pandemic

From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a powerful portrait of how...
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Author: Ross Douthat
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The Decadent Society: America Before and After the Pandemic by Douthat, Ross

The Decadent Society: America Before and After the Pandemic

CHF 23.20

The Decadent Society: America Before and After the Pandemic

CHF 23.20
Author: Ross Douthat
Format: Paperback
Language: English
From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a powerful portrait of how our wealthy, successful society has passed into an age of gridlock, stalemate, public failure and private despair.

The era of the coronavirus has tested America, and our leaders and institutions have conspicuously failed. That failure shouldn't be surprising: Beneath social-media frenzy and reality-television politics, our era's deep truths are elite incompetence, cultural exhaustion, and the flight from reality into fantasy. Casting a cold eye on these trends, The Decadent Society explains what happens when a powerful society ceases advancing--how the combination of wealth and technological proficiency with economic stagnation, political stalemate, and demographic decline creates a unique civilizational crisis.

Ranging from the futility of our ideological debates to the repetitions of our pop culture, from the decline of sex and childbearing to the escapism of drug use, Ross Douthat argues that our age is defined by disappointment--by the feeling that all the frontiers are closed, that the paths forward lead only to the grave. Correcting both optimism and despair, Douthat provides an enlightening explanation of how we got here, how long our frustrations might last, and how, in renaissance or catastrophe, our decadence might ultimately end.

Author: Ross Douthat
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Published: 03/16/2021
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781476785257

About the Author
Ross Douthat is a columnist for the New York Times op-ed page. He is the author of To Change the Church, Bad Religion, and Privilege, and coauthor of Grand New Party. Before joining the New York Times, he was a senior editor for the Atlantic. He is the film critic for National Review, and he cohosts the New York Times's weekly op-ed podcast, The Argument. He lives in New Haven with his wife and four children.

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