Category Archives: Christianity

The Implicit Whiteness of Rod Dreher’s BenOp Recommendations

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Max West

A fun game is to spot the implicit whiteness in Rod Dreher’s various BenOp recommendations, which isn’t all that hard to do. (Locations and/or activities that are comprised almost entirely of whites tend to be relatively peaceful, well-functioning, and high-trust, … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Death of the West, White Identity | Comments Off on The Implicit Whiteness of Rod Dreher’s BenOp Recommendations

Rod Dreher Wants to Smash the Establishment

Posted on December 1, 2018 by Max West

Rod Dreher has a piece on young French Catholics arguably coalescing into an indentifiable socio-political force. The post is a rejoinder to a longer piece by Mark Lilla in the NY Review of Books. In that piece, Lilla writes of … Continue reading →

Posted in Alt-Right, Christianity | Comments Off on Rod Dreher Wants to Smash the Establishment

On The South & Intolerance

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Max West

From Stark & Bainbridge’s The Future of Religion (1985), a seminal book in sociology of religion: The South is overwhelmingly Protestant, and southern Protestantism is so overwhelmingly Baptist and Methodist that southerners have had little need to accommodate even many … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, National, Religion | Comments Off on On The South & Intolerance

Rod Dreher’s Scatterbrain Approach

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Max West

Rod Dreher’s scatterbrain approach to the Death of the West is something to behold. From his recent post about spending a week in the Czech Republic (“Finding Hope In Europe’s Most Atheist Country”), he gets together with some Czech Catholics: … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Culture | Comments Off on Rod Dreher’s Scatterbrain Approach

Another Wrinkle

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Max West

Of A Wrinkle In Time, even liberal Richard Brody has some reservations: Whereas L’Engle’s book is replete with explicit Christian citations, the movie offers no overt religious references, not even any overt spirituality (other than a passing reference to faith … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Film, Political Correctness | Comments Off on Another Wrinkle

How Should Jews Remember Rev. Billy Graham?

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Max West

Currently, the #1 story at The New York Jewish Week is “How Should Jews Remember Rev. Billy Graham?”: Rev. Graham’s sharing of vile anti-Semitic stereotypes with President Nixon in 1972 did not endear him to Jewish collective memory. In secretly taped … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Jewish | Comments Off on How Should Jews Remember Rev. Billy Graham?

The Atlantic: “The Rise of Anti-Liberalism”

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Max West

In The Atlantic, the essay “The Rise of Anti-Liberalism” starts off promising, but quickly goes off the rails. This is likely due to the writer’s name being Shadi Hamid. Submission is still very clearly a dystopian novel—an increasingly popular genre these … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Death of the West, Islam, Literature | Comments Off on The Atlantic: “The Rise of Anti-Liberalism”

Orban Rules – Pt. 418

Posted on February 18, 2018 by Max West

From Reuters: BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian leader Viktor Orban called on Sunday for a global alliance against migration as his right-wing populist Fidesz party began campaigning for an April 8 election in which it is expected to win a third … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Europe, Immigration, White Identity | Comments Off on Orban Rules – Pt. 418

First Things: “The Impossibility Of “Alt-Right Christianity””

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Max West

Writing in First Things, Connor Grubaugh writes on “The Impossibility Of “Alt-Right Christianity””, which is largely a response to Hunter Wallace’s articulation of a race realist Christianity. [T]hose who ascribe the achievements of Western culture to race rather than providence … Continue reading →

Posted in Alt-Right, Christianity | Comments Off on First Things: “The Impossibility Of “Alt-Right Christianity””

Dreher: “Christians, Take The Alt-Right Seriously”

Posted on February 10, 2018 by Max West

Currently, the #1 article on TAC is Rod Dreher’s piece titled “Christians, Take The Alt-Right Seriously”, which is itself a riff on Michael Rose’s recent piece in First Things titled “The Anti-Christian Alt-Right”. Rose writes: The alt-right is anti-Christian. Not by … Continue reading →

Posted in Alt-Right, Christianity | Comments Off on Dreher: “Christians, Take The Alt-Right Seriously”