When Empires Decline

In this special show Alex Head meets author, broadcaster, historian and commentator Jared Yates Sexton (US).

They discuss everything from the current decline of the British way of life to toxic masculinity, algorithmically governed culture, conspiracy theorist useful idiots and more.

Jared’s bi-weekly Muckrake Political Podcast, together with political commentator Nick Haussleman has traced the recent mutation or epi-mutation of the decline of US liberal democracy.

Sexton’s recent work in print is The Midnight Kingdom, available on Penguin Random House.

Audio composition: Alex Head

Programme artwork: Bread Line by Clare Leighton, New York, 1932 (remixed)

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