How the culture wars spread to Ireland
This episode was originally published in March 2026.
In his new documentary Amplified: The Exportation of the Culture Wars, director Mike Sheridan explores the profound influence of toxic discourse in the United States on the rest of the world – and in particular, Ireland.
Through interviews and examples he shows how, with the amplification of social media, legitimate grievance can bloom into conspiracist, and how easily performance, paranoia, and power intertwine.
As Irish Times reviewer Tara Brady notes, the film which “begins as a study of toxic discourse in the United States expands into…
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