Advance Vance! Whither Wheaton?

I begin with my question: Will Trump be to Globalism what Reagan was to Communism?

Then I echo Rod Dreher’s reflections on the J. D. Vance address to the Munich Security Conference, particularly on the unreliability of the mainstream news media and on the unwillingness of Europe to defend itself.

Vance Speech: A Rhetorical D-Day Landing

Sadly I forgot to read Dreher’s summary and conclusion on that:

C.S. Lewis saw it all coming many decades ago. In The Abolition Of Man, he wrote:

We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

Europe is now a Man Without A Chest. And the new government in Washington is telling the Continent: Man up, become the heroes of your own story. J.D. Vance’s speech was the rhetorical equivalent of the D-Day landing. Now European patriots are preparing to fight to save their civilization from the enemies within.

I’ve also addressed European unwillingness to defend itself, particularly in the UK.

I also forgot to recommend The War Against the Past by Frank Furedi, which examines how education today has stolen youth of their Western past.

Here is the open letter on Wheaton College. I heartily recommend that all connected to Wheaton sign.

Here is Wheaton’s Statement of Faith.

And I mentioned that Trump’s Department of Education has read the riot act to schools on DEI.