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.
It might seem overblown to call this appeals hearing the Trial of the Century. It’s not. The ability of people in every society of the West to speak freely about what they believe is true is on trial.
This is what it means to have a leader who believes that the faith that was inseparable from the founding of the nation is vital to its survival.
Adam Smith once told a friend reassuringly, “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” He meant that nations have deep reserves that may not be visible in a crisis moment. But just how much ruin is there left in contemporary Britain?
A protest song calling out rich politicians for their indifference to the pain of working people has hit a nerve and topped the music charts, both in the U.S. & around the world.
Lessons from the shocking memoir of a top South African electricity executive.
Camus rejects the idea that le grand remplacement is a conspiracy. It’s not a conspiracy; it’s an observation.
If you want to understand the many-symptomed sickness that has overtaken modern culture, and begin finding our way to a cure, there is perhaps no better secular guide than Iain McGilchrist.
The narrative is “everything is fine in South Africa.” This understanding is stuck in 1991. To admit that the South African project hasn’t worked would be an immense political and ideological failure for the West.
His supporters love Trump not for what he has done or failed to do. They love him because he is hated by the same people who hate them.
When leftist ideologues constantly excuse criminality and other anti-social behavior, and at the same time damn white conservative males as bigots for defending law and order, and affirming the morality of violence to stop criminals—well, this is how Trump voters are made.
The thing Prime Minister Orbán did not say, but easily could have, is that the West is quite decadent, and in civilizational decline by almost any measure.
These populist parties are rising in popularity because the established parties of both left and right have sold out the interests of their peoples.
