News Summary

• The religious movements thriving in today’s secularized age are the traditionalist ones that dissent from large parts of contemporary culture.
• Vladimir Putin borrows ideas from reactionary thinkers such as Aleksandr Dugin to justify his imperial conquest of Ukraine.
• In the U.S., many on the right want to go back to the social mores of the 1950s: men in the workplace, women at home; white people on top.
• The brilliance of the phrase Make America Great Again is that it taps into that sense of nostalgia and loss.