Episodes

  • Making Sense of the Manosphere

    Making Sense of the Manosphere
    Jun 15 2026
    Ryan and Keith reflect on two decades of the manosphere. From early red pill forums and pickup culture to Andrew Tate, self-improvement influencers, black pill fatalism, and the wider online male advice economy. Why did so many young men turn to these spaces? What did the manosphere get right about masculinity and modern feminism? And where did it collapse into grift, resentment, narcissism, and despair?
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    57 mins
  • The Open Society

    The Open Society
    Jun 4 2026
    Why does the modern West treat minority rights as more sacred than the collective interest of its own people? Keith and Ryan discuss Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies, written in the mid-twentieth century in response to the totalitarianism of its age, and ask how Popper’s vision became the ruling ideal of the postwar West.
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    1 hr
  • Screening Ourselves to Death

    Screening Ourselves to Death
    May 23 2026
    Ryan and Keith discuss the sociology of screen addiction. The smartphone revolution of the 2010s has upended social life and remade our world. What does the new world of ever-present social media and algorithmic manipulation mean for happiness, dating, and the future of civilisation?
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    51 mins
  • Slopulism

    Slopulism
    May 17 2026
    Keith and Ryan discuss the age of slop and the rise of slopulism. How have algorithms and the growth of the attention economy changed politics on the right, and who are the winners and losers? Plus, an examination of the ways the establishment is now trying to co-opt the new right to serve old ends.
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • The Real Origins of Woke

    The Real Origins of Woke
    May 3 2026
    Keith explains the true origins of wokeism, looking at the emergence of "the equality thesis" in the 20th century and its effect on politics. How much are today's social justice movements the outgrowth of the West's Christian inheritance, how much is the fault of "Cultural Marxism," and why do conservative commentators so often misdiagnose the real origins of woke?
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Why Is Ireland So Left Wing?

    Why Is Ireland So Left Wing?
    Apr 18 2026
    Keith explains the remarkable dominance of left wing politics in Ireland. Contrary to many of the explanations that Ireland's leftism is rooted in "third worldism" or Irish nationalism, the answer lies in Ireland's remarkable elite cohesion and their dominance over public life.
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    55 mins
  • The Neurology of Modernity

    The Neurology of Modernity
    Apr 10 2026
    Keith and Ryan return to discuss The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist — a work exploring the “divided brain” and its consequences.

    They examine the distinct ways the left and right hemispheres interpret the world, and how an overdominance of the left hemisphere may help explain the pathologies of modern thought.
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    52 mins
  • The Fertility Crisis

    The Fertility Crisis
    Apr 3 2026
    Keith and Ryan return to discuss modern civilization's biggest crisis: the fertility collapse. Entire nations face erasure within generations on current trends. Why is this problem so persistent, what are the factors driving it, and what can be done to rebirth the West?
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    1 hr and 17 mins