The Downfall Of Liberal Civilization / Richard Seymour

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🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Richard Seymour returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his new book "Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization”, published by Verso Books. Seymour discusses the ideologies amplifying the contemporary right that is distorting modern politics into a nihilistic disaster nationalism. We will have new installments of Rotten History and Hangover Cure. We will also be sharing your answers to this week's Question from Hell! from Patreon. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	Biggerner, the water
0:04.0	The water is with the power
0:10.0	The air
0:14.0	We're going to
0:17.0	Take a jack Is it? This is Hell.
0:42.7	Manufacturing descent since 1996.
0:47.1	This is hell since the 21st century began.
0:52.8	We have seen the rise in power around the world of what has loosely
0:57.4	been called the far right.
0:59.8	Whether that's President Trump and the alt-right here in the United States, or its Indian
1:04.6	Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Hindutva BJP in India,
1:12.6	or Victor Orban and his Fidej party in Hungary,
1:16.5	which has been in power since 2010,
1:19.4	and we have covered it since then with our Budapest correspondent,
1:24.1	Todd Williams.
1:25.0	Or it's the libertarian Javier Milay in Argentina, who President Trump
1:30.4	recently helped get reelected. Or the new prime minister of Italy, Georgio Maloney, who comes from
1:36.8	the far-right brothers of Italy party, or Jair Bolsonaro's recent presidency in Brazil, which we
1:43.0	covered thoroughly since back in the days of
1:46.4	Rousseff and Lula and Lula's first time in office with our correspondent in Sao Paulo, Brian Muir,
1:54.3	and how Jaya Bolsonaro brought many of the former junta leaders and members back into
2:00.7	prominent government positions,
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