Quotations

In twenty to thirty years, Islam could become the dominant religion [in Germany].
Cardinal Gerhard Müller in an interview with Diane Montagna dated September 17, 2025, quoted by Rod Dreher yesterday in his newsletter

If you’re carrying the weight of roads not taken, of dreams deferred, of a life that feels smaller than you once hoped — watch It’s a Wonderful Life again tonight. Not as nostalgia, but as revelation.

Tony Seruga also quoted by Rod Dreher 

Today, Europe seems to suffer a sickness unto death; mass migration and its ills are part of that. The chronic self-hatred of Europe’s ruling class, raised in the wake of the wars, have set the stage for some terrible violence that is yet to come, I fear — civil wars, I mean. Besides, it is generally recognized that Europe is stagnant on many fronts. I love Europe, and choose to live here, but it is in serious trouble. Many Europeans think that Trump’s America hates them; the truth is, the Trump administration is trying to compel them to understand that they cannot go on this way, that it is in America’s interest for Europe to change, to cease this policy of managing decline and calling it progress.

Rod Dreher yesterday

Miriam Adelson can give Trump $100 million dollars – considerably greater than what AIPAC itself disbursed during the 2024 elections – and get a great deal of what she wants. But Qatar can give Trump a $400 million private jet – and get much more. 

Joshua Leifer, Ha'aretz, December 18, 2025

Historian David Sorkin at Yale makes a powerful argument: If you're looking for the event that most shaped modern Jewish life, it's not the Holocaust, nor Zionism or Israel – it's Jewish emancipation. Zionism and the Holocaust, he says, were both reactions to the idea that Jews could be integrated as citizens into the states where they lived. That was the promise of emancipation. Political antisemitism arose as a reaction to that promise.
Mark Marzower interviewed in Ha'aretz, December 9, 2025