Richard Seymour

1 week ago | surreywildlifetrust.org | Richard Seymour

Himalayan balsam (Impatiens Glandulifera) was introduced in 1839 by Victorian plant hunters, and it quickly escaped into the wild to become one of the UK’s most non-native invasive weeds. It is a relative of the “Busy Lizzie” and thrives in wet habitats close to rivers, streams and ponds. The Victorians may have been attracted by the colour of the flowers, which is shown in the photograph, as well as the speed at which the plant grows and adapted to our temperate climate.

Jan 31, 2025 | newpol.org | Richard Seymour |Shannon Ikebe

Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics and The Twittering Machine. His writing appears in The New York Times, London Review of Books, The Guardian, Prospect, Jacobin, and several other publications, including his own Patreon platform. He is an editor at Salvage magazine. Phil Gasper interviewed him in early December 2024 about his latest book, Disaster Nationalism.

Jan 24, 2025 | newstatesman.com | Richard Seymour

Los Angeles is burning in the middle of winter. The fires are still not fully contained, and the Santa Ana winds fuelling them returned this week. Over 40,000 acres have been burned, 200,000 people have been evacuated, more than 12,000 homes and buildings have been destroyed and more than 27 people dead, with many more missing. This is just one city. Previously, the most lethal wildfire season California had experienced since records began was in 2018.

Jan 8, 2025 | mronline.org | Richard Seymour

The inchoate breed of fascism emerging today thrives on disasters, chronic and acute. Today’s far right is not yet fascist, or not-yet-fascist. It does not organize paramilitaries with the aim of overthrowing electoral democracy and destroying political freedom. Rather, it has a thin, networked civil society base whose energies are wrapped around culture wars that occasionally explode into the meatspace violence of lone-wolf murderers, vigilantes, riots, pogroms, and pseudo-insurrections.

Jan 7, 2025 | foreignaffairs.com | Richard Seymour |G. John Ikenberry |James M. Lindsay

In this original and richly argued book, Seymour takes the reader into the dark and disturbing political and psychological underworld of apocalyptic right-wing nationalism. In recent decades, far-right parties and movements have grown in strength in Brazil, India, the Philippines, the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.