This is a very good piece by Sean Illing on the response of the right to Nolan’s Odyssey. I think I would push the argument one step further, however. Throughout the piece, Sean contrasts the disingenuousness of the contemporary right’s defense of Christianity and love of the Homeric world with Nietzsche’s “honesty”: Nietzsche saw that you cannot have both, and he was willing to give up Christianity for the aristocratic radicalism of the Homeric ethic. But what this argument about Nietzsche (and his times) needs to confront is what Nietzsche saw as the major emblem/residue of Christianity in the modern world: it wasn’t the church or religion or anything like that. It was socialism. This was a real mortal threat, as Nietzsche and his followers following his death perceived the world. And they weren’t wrong. The “honesty” or “bravery” of Nietzsche was that he had a material and cultural world collapsing around him, a collapse that he believed Christianity had fed and fueled into socialism, and so argued that to get rid of that threat, you had to go to its source. Contemporary Nietzscheans, such as they are, don’t confront that threat at all. Sure, they’ve tried to turn DEI or wokeness or even now DSA into a civilizational threat, but it’s nothing like the threat that socialism once posed to Europe. Or even the abolition of slavery, which Nietzsche was terrified of. So without that threat, the contemporary right can have it both ways. They’re not less honest than Nietzsche. They correctly perceive the balance of forces.