Continuum

Keith and Ryan trace the intellectual history of the modern Left. From the rise of the New Left and the radical movements of the twentieth century to the collapse of Marxism as a serious political alternative after the Cold War, they look at how the Left adapted itself to a new world of globalisation.

What remains of the old Left, what replaced it, and how did a movement once defined by opposition to capitalism become so closely intertwined with the institutions of the modern global order?

Keith and Ryan discuss America’s disastrous war with Iran: Israel’s role in the origins of the Purim War, the economic consequences still working their way through energy markets and the wider economy, and the difficult question of how the conflict can actually end.

Keith and Ryan discuss America’s enormous gamble on artificial intelligence. From record AI investment, data centres, and the growing weight of the sector in the US economy to China’s rapidly improving open-source models and the possibility that cheaper systems could erode America’s lead. How reliant has the US economy become on the AI boom? Can China catch up without matching American spending? And what warning signs would suggest the AI bubble is finally beginning to burst?

Keith and Ryan make their long awaited return to discuss the current thing, and tell you why Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is even worse than you thought.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.