The Battle Of Narratives | View from the Danube #5

The View From The Danube

The map of Europe is soon to be re-drawn. At the same time, thanks to Trump, the history of social justice ideology (DEI, and so on) will soon be written by the victors.

There are times in the affairs of men when the world must be made anew. That means taking some of our past forward with us - things we remember.

But it also means putting some of it away – a collective amnesia, in pursuit of a bigger social goal: moving on. Peace with Russia will mean moving past the crimes and injuries of the past three years, much as British soldiers were suddenly told that Stalin was now our friend in October 1941.

What of the Guilty Men (and women)? Will the Euro elite of von der Leyen, Kallas, and co, who have led the continent to this uneasy impasse, be able to get away with their heads?

Likewise, will the turning of the tides against social justice ideology — “woke” — mean that we forgive and forget those who were responsible? Or should we exact a more demonstrative justice?

The View From The Danube is the keystone video podcast of the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based think tank that aims to bring Conservative perspectives from the Anglosphere together, in the heart of the European capital of Conservativism.

It stars Rod Dreher, author of The Benedict Option and Living in Wonder, a Senior Fellow at the Danube Institute, John O’Sullivan, former speechwriter to Margaret Thatcher, the founder and President of the DI, and Calum Nicholson, the Director of Research. This week, they’re joined by Peter Boghossian.