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Today's Barbarian Invasions

1 week ago | roddreher.substack.com | Rod Dreher

That’s a sign on the Serbian side of the Serbia-Hungary border. Written in Arabic, it warns illegal migrants that if they touch the fence, they’re going to get a shock. I went down to the border yesterday with a group of journalists to see how Hungary protects its south flank.
As Goes South Africa, So Goes America?

1 week ago | roddreher.substack.com | Rod Dreher

Last night I finished a piece I have coming out soon in The Free Press, about the rise of racism and anti-Semitism on the Right. Obviously I condemn it, and in the piece urge my fellow conservatives to take seriously the online radicalization of young men. There’s a parallel between the radicalization into transgenderism of Very Online teenage girls in the last decade, and the radicalization into racism of Very Online teenage boys today.
What Is George Floyd's Legacy?

1 week ago | roddreher.substack.com | Rod Dreher

I’m finishing today a piece for The Free Press on the rise of anti-Semitism on the Very Online Right. As I mentioned in this space recently, twenty years ago, I started speaking out on classical liberal grounds against the rise of racial identity politics on the Left, warning that these people were summoning demons on the racially-conscious Right.
Tom Cruise Vs. The Anti-God

1 week ago | roddreher.substack.com | Rod Dreher

I spent three hours on Saturday afternoon macerating in a firehose of adrenaline, sitting in an IMAX theater watching Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning. It’s as good as I had hoped.
Trump, Harvard, & A Liberalism Of Suckers

2 weeks ago | roddreher.substack.com | Rod Dreher

So, El Trumpo is playing hardball with Harvard now:Then, within minutes of the meeting’s end, news alerts lit up the students’ phones. Chaos was breaking out again: Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, had notified Harvard that its permission to enroll international students was revoked. With that, the degrees and futures of thousands of Harvard students — and an integral piece of the university’s identity and culture — were plunged into deep uncertainty.
Trump Refuses To Live By South Africa Lies

2 weeks ago | roddreher.substack.com | Rod Dreher

President Donald Trump is a world-historical bad ass. What else can one say after his stunning performance in the White House yesterday, in defense of the persecuted white farmers of South Africa? I’ve cued this long clip of the entire meeting between Trump and South Africa president Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday to the point where they began talking about the attacks in South Africa on white farmers.
23 Hours In Brussels

2 weeks ago | roddreher.substack.com | Rod Dreher

That is a selfie spot outside the European Parliament in Brussels. “Democracy In Action” it says. Oy, what a joke! This morning I heard a few Europeans inside the parliament building laughing about how “Democracy In Action” is an Orwellian slogan.
Making Universities Accountable

2 weeks ago | roddreher.substack.com | Rod Dreher

Our friend and commentator Wafa e-mailed this, and gives me permission to post it. It’s really smart and insightful:Like some of your subscribers, I am busy and behind on my reading, which is why I'm only now getting to the post about accountability in higher education. You asked -- in bold! -- in a democracy, what responsibility do universities, and the knowledge-producing class, have to the rest of us? In what ways should they be held accountable?
The China Trap

2 weeks ago | roddreher.substack.com | Rod Dreher

‘Tank Man,’ Tiananmen Square, 1989If there’s one thing we Americans are consistently good at, it’s getting China wrong. I remember sitting in a Godfather’s Pizza in Baton Rouge, in June 1989, fresh out of college, having lunch, and reading every single word in The New York Times about the Tiananmen Square Massacre. There were a lot of words. It was a wo…
The Cost Of Team Biden's Lying

3 weeks ago | roddreher.substack.com | Rod Dreher

Normally I don’t write on the weekend, but that Biden interview with special counsel Robert Hur is so stunning I couldn’t stop myself. Did you hear it? Here’s an excerpt:Listen to it. Seriously, you have to. A transcript can’t convey the full meaning of this exchange. It’s Grampa Simpson stuff — except this senile old man was President of the United States at the time.