Rod Dreher (@roddreher) is a columnist for The European Conservative and author of a daily newsletter, Rod Dreher’s Diary.
Why Trump?

Why Trump?

If the only politician who will fight for people like us against an establishment that doesn’t care is a bit crazy and chaotic, it might be worth the mess.

May 7, 2025
Camus Against the Machine

Camus Against the Machine

Wokeness, multiculturalism, globalism—reading Renaud Camus is an antidote to these drugs. No wonder the Starmer government wants to ban him.

April 22, 2025
Could the Pope’s Death Mean the Demise of Liberal Catholicism?

Could the Pope’s Death Mean the Demise of Liberal Catholicism?

Pope Francis’ final audience with U.S. vice president JD Vance might have marked the divide between the past and future of the Church of Rome.

April 21, 2025
Is Civil War Coming to Europe?

Is Civil War Coming to Europe?

Ordinary Europeans are starting to admit what their leaders won’t: civil unrest may be closer than anyone dares to say.

April 14, 2025
Lies, The Spirit of Munich, and JD Vance

Lies, The Spirit of Munich, and JD Vance

Europe’s revival won’t come from above. It’ll be claimed from below by ordinary Europeans unafraid of leftist judges and Brussels bureaucrats.

April 3, 2025
The ‘Signal Scandal’: Trump’s Cabinet Drops Truth Bombs on Europe

The ‘Signal Scandal’: Trump’s Cabinet Drops Truth Bombs on Europe

Rather than blame the messenger, Europe’s leadership class should have a sober discussion about what they should do to address their real problems.

March 26, 2025
The Western Elites’ War on Common Sense

The Western Elites’ War on Common Sense

Do you want your mothers and daughters facing Russian artillery and war’s horrors? If not, why assume every strange form of egalitarianism is just?

March 18, 2025
Trump Breaks Spell of Liberal Enchantment

Trump Breaks Spell of Liberal Enchantment

What are European nations, whose moral support for the Ukrainian cause is undeniable, prepared to sacrifice to continue backing Kyiv?

March 3, 2025
Trump, Vance Shake Europe Awake From Liberal Dream

Trump, Vance Shake Europe Awake From Liberal Dream

It will take more shocks like the one Trump and Vance delivered from the Oval Office to wake Europe’s leaders up from their dream, which has become a nightmare for so many ordinary Europeans.

March 1, 2025
Without Europeans, Europe Has No Future

Without Europeans, Europe Has No Future

Pro-natalist policies are necessary, but not enough: a culture that has come to believe that individual happiness is its highest goal is one that is on its way to extinction.

February 25, 2025
The NGO Pope Commits ‘Ecclesiastical Suicide’

The NGO Pope Commits ‘Ecclesiastical Suicide’

The official Catholic teaching balances charity with common sense. JD Vance understands that; Pope Francis does not.

February 12, 2025
Trump’s NGO Apocalypse

Trump’s NGO Apocalypse

The new U.S. administration is putting an end to the pouring of taxpayer money down the drain by sending it to foreign countries to promote progressive ideologies and globalist agendas.

February 5, 2025