📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/3Qdkd5y Freddie Sayers interviews author Paul Kingsnorth. Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/2025/09/paul-kingsnorth-how-to-fight-the-machine/ Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers welcomes Paul Kingsnorth to the UnHerd Club for an exclusive interview about his new book, Against the Machine. Kingsnorth has spent decades charting the alienation and upheaval brought about by modernity. In this wide-ranging interview he sets out why he sees today’s technological order as inhuman, why AI may be the 'Antichrist', and why he believes the West must be allowed to die. What does it mean to live as a dissident inside the Machine? And what lines must we draw if we are to remain human? Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv // TIMECODES // 06:07 Does Paul Kingsnorth hate modernity? Why? 18:54 Is modern technology 'devilish'? 32:07 Has traditional culture 'crumbled'? 44:32 Is Western capitalism erasing world cultures? Are there parallels between Kingsnorth's worldview and emergent Christian nationalism? 51:28 Is Paul Kingsnorth a 'reactionary radical'? What is 'reactionary radicalism'? 59:45 Audience Q&A #UnHerd # #