Author Archives: Rod Dreher

About Rod Dreher

Rod Dreher is a senior editor at The American Conservative. He has written and edited for the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, National Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Washington Times, and the Baton Rouge Advocate. Rod’s commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, Beliefnet, and Real Simple, among other publications, and he has appeared on NPR, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC. He lives in St. Francisville, Louisiana, with his wife Julie and their three children. He has also written two books, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming and Crunchy Cons.

If You Win The $600 Million Jackpot Tonight…

… what will you do with it? I mean, what’s the first …

A Little Town In West Feliciana

That’s my neighbor, K.W. Kennon, proprietor of the Shadetree Inn. That’s my …

The Eternal GOP Meme

We need leaders who have more confidence in American people and more …

The Progressive Pedophile Party

In the 1980s, the Roman Catholic Church may have aided and abetted …

View From Your Table

From the Angel & Harp pub. You know what I’m going to …

Offloading Virtue’s Costs

Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan has a smart post criticizing the move by Swarthmore …

The Tyranny Of Desire

No, not another BDSM thread. This, from Psychology Today, is about a …

Technology, Decline, & Our Brains

A reader writes on the Problem With Public Schools Is Often The …

How The Lights Went Out In A West Texas Town

Reader R-P in Texas, commenting on the “Can A Place Cease To …

Porn & A Culture Of Consent

It’s a little bit frustrating when some readers complain that several posts …

The Problem With Public Schools Is Often The Public

Commenter “Charles” sounds off with an Evans-Manning entry on the Willful Defiance …

Kevin Williamson, You Rock

Kevin Williamson was at the theater the other night, and got himself …

Walker Percy Weekend — It’s On!

What a great response I got to the post earlier this week …

Tonight At The Starhill Cemetery

From The Little Way Of Ruthie Leming, what happened on this night …

Can A Place Cease To Exist?

Just down the hill from where I live sits the former town …

‘Willful Defiance’

NPR has a piece out today about how Los Angeles public schools …

Of Love And Porn

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry has a philosophical take on the Emily Witt essay about …

501(c)4 Follies

Some social welfare groups are more social than others, reports USA Today: …

‘Christian Eugenics’? Anathema Sit

This came in my e-mail the other day: Dear Friend, Through our …

From Howard Beach To Scenic Highway

You know what’s great about getting a print magazine or newspaper? That …

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