Rod gets a shout out in article about Vance/Rubio

Always nice to see a Rod mention in the wild:

https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/vance-or-rubio-it-doesnt-matter

Recently, the always-overwrought commentator Rod Dreher criticized Vance for not speaking out as much as Dreher thinks he should against the antisemitic “groyper” movement. Dreher, who seems to think 2026 America is the 1932 Wehrmacht Republic, apparently believes that Washington, DC is full of young antisemites plotting a new thousand-year Reich, and laments that Vance isn’t as hysterical as he is.

Lest we forget, that website is also the host of Austin Ruse's delightful puncturing of Rod's ego here:

https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-pope-and-rod-dreher

Rod Dreher let a combination of ego and Twitter get the better of him in Rome a few days ago. Dreher met the Pope in the Vatican, one of those longish meet-and-greets where you briefly shake the Pope’s hand, maybe say a few words, get a picture snapped. Dreher took this moment to tell Francis, “I wrote The Benedict Option.” 

Dreher expected the Pope to know him. After all, The Benedict Option. Instead, Dreher said in a now-deleted tweet, “He took my name tag in his hand, looked at it, then gave me a blank expression.” As Rod might say while slurping oysters on the banks of the Seine, “Quel dommage.” 

Posted Jul 30, 2026, 2:18 PM UTC

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