The great minds of our times are at odds over how the pandemic will change our lives

Arjun Neil Alim takes a look at two new books - The Wake Up Call by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge and The Good Country Equation by Simon Anholt - that consider how the world can be fixed for the better

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There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen”. The situation must be serious when two of the West’s most prominent economic liberals begin a book by quoting Lenin.

Bloomberg’s John Micklethwait and The Economist’s Adrian Wooldridge do exactly that in their book-cum-pamphlet on how to relaunch Western liberal democracy after the pandemic.

‘Wake Up Call: Why the pandemic has exposed the weakness of the West – and how to fix it’ is one of two newly released books that prescribes how government should change for the benefit of us all.