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Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher is an American journalist and author of the Substack Rod Dreher's Diary. His most recent book is Living in Wonder, and he is currently working on a new book exploring the parallels between 1920s Germany and 2020s America.
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Rod Dreher: What the San Diego Mosque Shooters Believed
The teenage killers’ manifesto contains ominous echoes of the past, and is a dark warning of our future.
Rod Dreher
In Finland, Promoting Biblical Views Is Now Illegal
Rod Dreher explains how hate speech bans like Finland’s are no longer about protecting rights, but about stamping liberal orthodoxy into law.
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Jesse Jackson: Godfather of the Great Awokening
The late civil rights activist and politician brought identity politics from the streets to corporate boardrooms and university administrations. We are…
Rod Dreher
Jeffrey Epstein and Our Pre-Revolutionary Moment
The revelations in the Epstein files—and the furor that surrounds them—have ominous echoes in history.
Rod Dreher
Trump Can’t Win Greenland Without Losing Europe
The European right is winning elections by promising sovereignty and dignity. Trump’s Greenland gambit threatens both.
Rod Dreher
My Fellow Americans, You Must Watch ‘Pluribus’
We’ve become so comfortable that we’ve forgotten: To be human is not to be perfect, but rather to be broken.
Rod Dreher
The Intersectionality of Nick Fuentes
The Groypers’ worldview is a Frankenstein made out of the race essentialism of the progressive left.
Rod Dreher
J.D. Vance Versus the Groypers?
Why the vice president is—or could be—the answer to the problem of Nick Fuentes.
Rod Dreher
On Pilgrimage with 20,000 Young Catholics
‘Tradition is the only safe future we have,’ says a 24-year-old, on the way to Chartres Cathedral. ‘What are you going to build your life on, if not…
Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher: The Radical Right Is Coming for Your Sons
It is easy to denounce our political enemies. It is much harder to do when our friends and allies embrace wicked ideas.
Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher: ‘Cry More, Libs’ Is Not a Strategy
These are difficult days for people like me: Americans who back the Trump administration for its determination to fight back against establishment…
Rod Dreher
Things Worth Remembering: One Easter Night in Europe
Yes, God is everywhere—no farther from us in a Walmart than He is in Vienna’s Stephansdom. But we are creatures of flesh, and a little grandeur helps us…
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