In this week’s ABR Podcast, Timothy J. Lynch considers whether the United States is on the path to a second civil war, as forecast by Nick Bryant in The Forever War: America’s unending conflict with itself. In his book, Bryant, a former BBC Washington correspondent, argues that hate and paranoia form a central core of the American experience. Timothy J. Lynch is Professor of American politics at the University of Melbourne. Here is Timothy J. Lynch with ‘Death by suicide? Division as a default setting in America’, published in the July issue of ABR.