Dr. Bradley Garrett is an American social and cultural geographer. He is the author of five books translated into four languages, over fifty journal articles and book chapters, and has written for The Atlantic, the Guardian, and GQ. His research has been featured on media outlets worldwide including the The Joe Rogan Experience, the BBC, and National Geographic. Dr. Garrett received his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, was a postdoctoral fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and served as a research fellow at the University of Sydney. He has been an invited speaker at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House (Australia), Chicago Ideas Week and Google Zeitgeist (USA), and at the Tate Modern and Barbican galleries (UK), amongst other places. He currently resides in Big Bear Lake, California.

How prescient and timely ... This is a tartly thoughtful work, by turns witty and philosophical, with an undercurrent of anger at the way we are governed and the commodification of existential fear. He writes pacily, bringing to vivid life a gallery of survivalist wingnuts, conmen and evangelists.