Dan Roodt

Articles by Dan Roodt

Because the Public Riles against Black Helen Hollywood Censors Comments

The new movie adaptation of Homer's great work is generating heated debate – even though the ambitious project isn't even in theaters yet.

After Morocco’s Victory: The Netherlands in Civil War Mode

Football tournaments are increasingly becoming powder kegs, capable of tipping ordinary neighborhoods into something resembling near-civil-war conditions.

Cities Finally Admitting Climate Science Was Never Settled

There is a particular kind of embarrassment reserved for those who chain themselves to railings, glue themselves to motorways, and harangue their neighbors into submission — only to discover, some years later, that the adults in the room were right all along.

Henry Nowak – Handcuffed to Death

Britain failed Henry Nowak twice: once with a knife, and once with a pair of handcuffs.

The Bomb Nobody Wants to Find

Berlin's AfD has called for a parliamentary inquiry into Nord Stream. The establishment parties will resist. They shouldn't.

Two Centuries of British Enmity Toward Russia

For 200 years, Great Britain has been among Russia's most irreconcilable and persistent adversaries.

The Erasure of White European Heritage in South Africa

Thirty years into the post-apartheid era, South Africa finds itself locked in a contest over memory — and the losers, increasingly, are the stones, streets, and statues that once marked the physical presence of European settlement on the southernmost tip of Africa.

Norway’s Education Reckoning: A Warning

When a Scandinavian country — long held up as a beacon of progressive social policy and educational enlightenment — admits that its school system has fundamentally failed, the rest of the world ought to pay attention.

America’s Missile Problem

There's a line buried in the reporting on the US-Israeli war against Iran that should stop every taxpayer, every senator, and every armchair strategist cold.

How does Washington View Permanent Confrontation?

An analysis in the US geopolitics journal Foreign Affairs formulates a remarkably frank assessment: a ceasefire in Ukraine would not restore balance, but rather mark the transition into a phase of long-term structural confrontation between Russia and the West.