Dexter Van Zile

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In 2022, I interviewed Umar Lee, a prominent Muslim activist from St. Louis, for the publication I edit, Focus on Western Islamism (FWI). One of the electrifying moments of the interview came when Lee said that he discourages young white men from converting to Islam. Muslims born into the faith regard white male converts with suspicion that will likely never go away, he warned.

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The author near Lake Kivu, Bukavu, Zaire, 1987. As strange as it sounds, President Donald Trump needs to pay close attention to a group of leftists who started a movement called, “Decolonize the Peace Corps” a few years back. The organization has a bracing message: the only people who are really helped by the Peace Corps are its volunteers and that it’s time to shut the organization down.

1 month ago | dextervanzile.substack.com | Dexter Van Zile

The author near Lake Kivu, Bukavu, Zaire, 1987. As strange as it sounds, President Donald Trump needs to pay close attention to a group of leftists who started a movement called, “Decolonize the Peace Corps” a few years back. The organization has a bracing message: the only people who are really helped by the Peace Corps are its volunteers and that it’s time to shut the organization down.

1 month ago | dextervanzile.substack.com | Dexter Van Zile

Anglican scholar Gerald McDermott (above) has written a restorative and kerygmatic text that is of interest to scholars and lay Christians struggling to withstand the turmoil of the current age. (Photo by Dexter Van Zile). In his penultimate book, The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy posits the widely held belief that the end is near for Western civilization. He offers this message through his aptly named protagonist, Bobby Western—whose father, a nuclear physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project.

1 month ago | dextervanzile.substack.com | Dexter Van Zile

I was in my third or fourth month at the David Project, an organization founded in 2002 to counter anti-Zionism on college campuses, when one of my co-workers at the desk next to me told me the news. It was a mid-morning in early 2005 and I had just gotten off a long phone conversation with another Christian defender of Israel. “Dexter, it’s OK,” she said. “You can say it.”Dexter’s Substack is a reader-supported publication.