Rod Dreher is an American journalist who writes about politics, culture, religion, and foreign affairs. He is author of a number of books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Benedict Option (2017) and Live Not By Lies (2020), both of which have been translated into over ten languages. He is director of the Network Project of the Danube Institute in Budapest, where he lives.
Europe’s revival won’t come from above. It’ll be claimed from below by ordinary Europeans unafraid of leftist judges and Brussels bureaucrats.
Rather than blame the messenger, Europe’s leadership class should have a sober discussion about what they should do to address their real problems.
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?
What are European nations, whose moral support for the Ukrainian cause is undeniable, prepared to sacrifice to continue backing Kyiv?
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.
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.
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.
Will European voters see through the malicious labeling of anyone opposing left-wing policies as ‘Nazis 2.0’?
As the showcase of US liberalism lies in ashes, progressivism is burning itself out.
Europeans will be able to see not only the true measure of their governing class’s failures, but also that a real alternative is possible.
The rape-gang scandal makes it abundantly clear that liberalism, as it has been practiced for decades in the West, is the suicide note of a civilization.
Where is Home, ye wayfarer? A response to Audrey Unverferth