<description>&lt;p&gt;Text: https://processthis.substack.com/p/not-perfect-just-forgiven-f1f &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amid ICE terror and Epstein files in February 2026, my colleague Tripp Fuller asked if I&amp;#39;d write something on reactionaries, evangelicals, and fascism. Draws on critical theology, political philosophy, and psychoanalysis from Wilhelm Reich, Theodor Adorno, Gillian Rose, Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Slavoj Zizek, and Robert Paxton. Builds on some arguments from my 2019 book Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want?&lt;/p&gt;
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Text: https://processthis.substack.com/p/not-perfect-just-forgiven-f1f Amid ICE terror and Epstein files in February 2026, my colleague Tripp Fuller asked if I&#39;d write something on reactionaries, evangelicals, and fascism. Draws on critical theology, political philosophy, and psychoanalysis from Wilhelm Reich, Theodor Adorno, Gillian Rose, Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Slavoj Zizek, and Robert Paxton. Builds on some arguments from my 2019 book Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want?

Theses on Reactionaries

<description>&lt;p&gt;A history of oil, arms trade, Arab revolutions, and US policy in the region alongside the limits of liberal political theory and climate change.&lt;/p&gt;
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A history of oil, arms trade, Arab revolutions, and US policy in the region alongside the limits of liberal political theory and climate change.

Climate Change and the Limits of Liberal Democracy

<description>&lt;p&gt;Richard Seymour, PhD is the author of the forthcoming &lt;em&gt;Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization &lt;/em&gt;(October 2024). He is a Northern Irish writer and broadcaster, and a founding editor of Salvage magazine. His writing can be found in the New York Times, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, the New Statesman, Al Jazeera, and innumerable other publications. He is the author of &lt;em&gt;The Liberal Defence of Murder&lt;/em&gt; (2008), &lt;em&gt;The Meaning of David Cameron&lt;/em&gt; (2010), &lt;em&gt;American Insurgents&lt;/em&gt; (2012), &lt;em&gt;Unhitched&lt;/em&gt; (2013), &lt;em&gt;Against Austerity&lt;/em&gt; (2014), &lt;em&gt;Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics&lt;/em&gt; (2016 &amp;amp; 2017), &lt;em&gt;The Twittering Machine&lt;/em&gt; (2019), and is a co-author of &lt;em&gt;The Tragedy of the Worker&lt;/em&gt; (2021) by the Salvage collective. His regular writings can also be found on his Patreon.&lt;/p&gt;
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Richard Seymour, PhD is the author of the forthcoming Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization (October 2024). He is a Northern Irish writer and broadcaster, and a founding editor of Salvage magazine. His writing can be found in the New York Times, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, the New Statesman, Al Jazeera, and innumerable other publications. He is the author of The Liberal Defence of Murder (2008), The Meaning of David Cameron (2010), American Insurgents (2012), Unhitched (2013), Against Austerity (2014), Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (2016 &amp; 2017), The Twittering Machine (2019), and is a co-author of The Tragedy of the Worker (2021) by the Salvage collective. His regular writings can also be found on his Patreon.

Interview with Richard Seymour

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