In episode 5 of The Burning Archive Podcast, Jeff Rich goes full-on pessimist to discuss Doom, disaster and decay. We take a quick tour of Niall Ferguson's Doom: the Politics of Catastrophe and Francis Fukuyama's ideas on political decay, and what they tell us about the responses of governments around the world to the pandemic. And the podcast asks what can we do to hold back the decline of governing institutions?

Quick note - I uploaded a recording with amplified audio on 26/5/21. Sorry!