Weimar America?

<p>In this bonus episode, I spoke with Rod Dreher about what he describes as the 'Weimarisation of the West' – an increasingly atomised and economically precarious society that valorises transgression for its own sake. We also discussed whether World War II still has a central place in the cultural imagination, why the Online Right puts so much emphasis on humour, and the ongoing civil unrest in Minnesota.&nbsp;</p><ul><li><a href="https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/doomers-in-love/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Article in 'The Point' on heteropessimism</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/opinion/harry-potter-millenials-liberalism.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">'The Harry Potter generation needs to grow up'</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efBB0D4tf1Y" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tucker Carlson interviews Nick Fuentes</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10NK8C9OQsI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fuentes on Red Scare</a></li><li><a href="https://roddreher.substack.com/p/how-afraid-of-nurses-should-we-be" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rod's Substack post on nurses' comments on ICE agents</a></li><li><a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/rod-dreher-the-woke-right-is-coming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">'The Radical Right Is Coming for Your Sons'</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QLgLfqh6s" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ezra Klein on Trump</a></li></ul><p><br /></p><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>