Angela Nagle chronicles the online culture wars that rumble  underneath the news events that have shaken consensus politics in the last couple of years. Last year, her book Kill All Normies instantly became the go-to guide on everything from 4chan to Tumblr, from the manosphere to the lamestream, and from neckbeards to basic bitches. In

This is a reading by actor Stephen Rea of an account of events in County Cork during the Great Famine of the 1840s. Historian Breandán Mac Suibhne draws on the source material of a local doctor’s notes to describe how an entire society, its customs and norms, collapsed under pressure of dispossession, starvation and disease.

We are kicking off with an interview with Paul Ennis about the dark politics of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. What connects libertarianism, digital disruption, Trumpism and the politics of exit? Paul is a researcher at the Centre for Innovation, Technology and Organisation at University College Dublin. This interview took place in the summer of 2017,