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Honestly with Bari Weiss · August 19, 2025 · 45m

The Radical Right Is Coming for Our Sons

Bari Weiss explores the rise of the 'woke right'—an illiberal mirror of the progressive left. She argues that after years of the left making everything taboo, some on the right have declared nothing is taboo, leading to a dangerous embrace of extreme rhetoric and revisionism. Guest Rod Dreher, a conservative writer, warns that this new identitarian politics on the right threatens liberal democracy from within.

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Highlights

The 'Woke Right' Dynamic
The term 'woke right' describes the emergence of illiberalism on the political right, mirroring the intolerance that has overtaken the progressive left.
Symbolic Culture War: Renaming and Removing
Both sides engage in renaming landmarks and deleting historical descriptions as a way to control cultural narratives.
Right-Wing Identity Politics
The woke right inverts progressive identity politics by claiming white, Christian men are the most oppressed group in America.
Rod Dreher Warns of Illiberal Danger on the Right
Rod Dreher, a conservative author, is calling attention to the rise of illiberalism within his own political movement.
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