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Rod Dreher

Rod Dreher is a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute, and a contributor to Hungarian Conservative. He is the author of How Dante Can Save Your Life (2015), The Benedict Option (2017), and Live Not By Lies (2022). Follow him on Twitter @roddreher, or subscribe to his daily Substack newsletter, roddreher.substack.com.
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Rod Dreher

Rod Dreher is a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute, and a contributor to Hungarian Conservative. He is the author of How Dante Can Save Your Life (2015), The Benedict Option (2017), and Live Not By Lies (2022). Follow him on Twitter @roddreher, or subscribe to his daily Substack newsletter, roddreher.substack.com.
Republican vice presidential candidate Senator JD Vance speaks during a fundraising event at Discovery World on July 16 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

J.D. Vance: Middletown’s Hero — And Felcsút’s

‘In his convention speech, Vance challenged the globalist idea that nations are a thing of the past. After telling a powerful story about how seven generations of his family are

Living Freely, Lying Freely

‘The corruption is staggering. Chemically and surgically intervening to halt the normal sexual development of children is an extreme measure by any reckoning. In Europe, physicians and researchers have stepped
A participant displays a placard reading 'Court of (George) Soros' as members and supporters of the ruling FIDESZ party demonstrate in front of the European Commission's local headquarters in Budapest on 14 June 2024

How to Fight ‘Cultural Socialism’? The Right Must Learn to Use the State

‘This is why the model pioneered by Viktor Orbán and Fidesz matters so much to Western conservatives. Orbán understood a long time ago that powerful private actors—especially George Soros and
Participants at the Rome Pride on 15 June 2024

US Embassy Pride Picnic: Tea Party on a Civilizational Titanic

‘“There is not enough money in the world for us to put our children and grandchildren into the hands of LGBT activists,” said Orbán earlier this month. We are all
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Breton Brother and Sister (1871). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

To Brussels, All Minorities Are Diverse, but Some Are More Diverse Than Others

‘Throughout the West today…there is a mania for forgetting our civilizational past as an intolerable moral burden. Western elites regard migrants, sexual minorities, and other outsiders as bearers of ‘‘the

Two Magyar Men, Two Rival Visions for Europe — The Symbolic Importance of László Molnárfi and Viktor Orbán

‘It’s hard not to think of another Hungarian who was a radical back in his student days: Viktor Orbán, who took on the existing Communist power structure. In fact, the
A protestor at a demonstration against Ron DeSantis during a Republican fundraising event in Houston, Texas on 3 March 2023.

Gender, Children and Family — Hungary Gets It Right While the U.S. Stumbles

‘Last week in the United States, President Joe Biden released new rules governing Title IX, a part of American civil rights law governing its application to discrimination against women. With
Trofim Lysenko speaking at the Kremlin in 1935. At the back (left to right) are Stanislav Kosior, Anastas Mikoyan, Andrei Andreev and the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin.

Woke Lysenkoism Comes to American Medicine

‘The politicization of science is a terrible thing. In the Stalinist period, the ideological pseudo-science of Trofim Lysenko destroyed Soviet genetics research. Lysenko’s fraudulent scientific theories about plant genetics coincided
Churchgoers attending service.

Do You Want a Christian Hungary? Then Act Like It

‘Cultural Christianity is not enough. Nor is voting for pro-Christian conservatives. Without a return to the faith, the sad, sorry state of Britain at Eastertide today is going to be
Invasion of the Barbarians by Ulpiano Checa (1887)

‘That never happens in Hungary.’ True — But for How Long?

‘The fact that Hungary has to fight like hell for its right to be normal is a sign of the times. So is the fact that in America, as in
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Rod Dreher

Rod Dreher is a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute, and a contributor to Hungarian Conservative. He is the author of How Dante Can Save Your Life (2015), The Benedict Option (2017), and Live Not By Lies (2022). Follow him on Twitter @roddreher, or subscribe to his daily Substack newsletter, roddreher.substack.com.
Picture of Rod Dreher

Rod Dreher

Rod Dreher is a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute, and a contributor to Hungarian Conservative. He is the author of How Dante Can Save Your Life (2015), The Benedict Option (2017), and Live Not By Lies (2022). Follow him on Twitter @roddreher, or subscribe to his daily Substack newsletter, roddreher.substack.com.
Budapest, City of Conservatives
POLITICS

Budapest, City of Conservatives

Among the rising generation of conservatives in the US and Western Europe, both Hungary and its capital are becoming synonymous with intellectual conservatism.

Rod Dreher
16.01.2023
The Enlivening Force of St Benedict’s Legacy
CULTURE & SOCIETY

The Enlivening Force of St Benedict’s Legacy

‘I am convinced that if Christianity—not only Catholicism, but all forms of Christianity—is to have a future in the secularizing West, it will have to be Benedictine’

Rod Dreher
24.10.2021
Mickey Mouse: Social Justice Warrior
CURRENT

Mickey Mouse: Social Justice Warrior

‘Even the spy agency has embraced left-wing identity politics. So has the US military. There is no place to hide from it’

Rod Dreher
01.07.2021
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