Michael Dwyer interviews Gary Kavanagh, Director of the Edmund Burke Institute, on his political philosophy, his childhood, his views on Irish media, and if he thinks the conservative movement in Ireland has a future.

01:28 - First political experience

05:10 - When did you get interested in Irish politics?

05:35 - When did you start reading philosophy and what were you reading?

07:50 - Are you basically just a Stoic?

14:40 - Your views on Camus

22:45 - Systemic fragility and how institutions and societies die.

29:00 - Do you agree that liberals have an overly optimistic view on their ability to build new institutions and how much we understand them?

35:40 - Why certain institutions work and the reality of human nature.

39:00 - How biased is the Irish media/why don't the public trust journalists?

51:01 - A small, recent example of multiple Irish newspapers simply lying about something.

55:15 - Fact-checking sites and bias / thejournal.ie changing its own factchecking results

57:43 - The future of the conservative movement in Ireland. Does it have one?