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 four books, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Crunchy Cons, How Dante Can Save Your Life, and The Benedict Option.
On White People Acting White
Kevin D. Williamson, who grew up in the white underclass, refuses to be sentimental
A Traitor To Her Political Class
A liberal reader has good things to say about Hobby Lobby
Trump: America’s Gorbachev
He’s burning up American power, says African foreign minister
Gen. Kelly Opens Fire
Defending Donald Trump’s words to war widow Myeshia Johnson
A Disillusioned Liberal Writes
He’s fed up with the self-destruction of the Social Justice Warrior left
Face It, Parents: There Is No Peace
Take it from two Christians and an Orthodox Jew who are on the front lines of the culture war
Trump: Conservatism’s Reckoning With Nemesis
The hubris of the Right delivered us into the hands of the goddess of comeuppance
LSU Up A Lazy River
The student as consumer, or, what happens when university leadership becomes followership
Keeping Kids Safe From Sexual Predators
A veteran police detective offers parents advice from the sex crimes beat
Goodbye, German Bugs
New study finds staggering falloff in insect population there
More David Hart On Kosmos/Cosmos
You might have seen my post the other day about the theologian …
The Winnowing Of The Churches
Welcoming Church Clarity, a progressive Evangelical website that rates congregations on LGBT policies
Thinking With Alan Jacobs
How does morality and the will affect our ability to think clearly?
Ben Op On The Road
L.A., South Bend, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston
Make Stuffed Animals Great Again
Introducing Trumpy Bear™
No Religious Tests For Public Office, Remember?
US Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore shares anti-religious prejudice of Democrats Feinstein, Durbin, and Sanders
Camus Writes To A German Friend
The French existentialist takes the measure of a friend who became a Nazi
The Demise Of Bourgeois Christianity
Building Benedict Option sanctuaries on a dark mountain
Children’s Story Time In Weimar America
Drag queen reads to children at the Michelle Obama Public Library
Her Too
Sexual abuse victim: ‘I learned that I was chewed gum, a licked cupcake, a rotten apple’
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