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.
Luca Daum & St. Galgano
An artist wants to know: What role do artists have in the Benedict Option?
The Cost Of Protecting The Lavender Mafia
A lawyer says Francis’s denial and avoidance will be devastating
Sex, Lies, And Kavanaugh
A black man says: He may be guilty, but history shows that women do lie
Defiance, a l’Opzione Benedetto
Italian priests quietly withdraw from a town’s festival to protest progressivist sacrilege
Ed Whelan’s Crackpot Theory
Top conservative activist and Kavanaugh pal bids to destroy private citizen’s life for the cause
The Remoteness Of Reform
Rising Catholic anger — but the Pope and his team stay the self-destructive course
Making Christian Prophets Within Liberalism
Alan Jacobs on why true reform starts with Benedict Option-style localism
What Happened To Amber Wyatt
Questions raised by Liz Bruenig’s devastating story about a high school rape victim
A Kavanaugh Note
A young woman supports Kavanaugh, because she is a recovering alcoholic, and remembers what it was like to be a teenage drunk
Benedict Option & The Church Of The Future
Sandro Magister: ‘The most important religious book of the decade’ reveals the value of monasticism to moderns
Italians Planting Seed By The Waters
A pilgrim’s progress on the winding road to heaven in Italy
The Kavanaugh Debacle
Can we determine with finality whether or not he did it? And if he did, is it fair to hold a man responsible for something he did as a drunk teenager?
A Monk Recommends The Benedict Option
Abbot Michael John Zielinski says it’s necessary for our post-Christian world
Pope Plunges In Poll
Not the ‘Francis Effect’ the Vatican wants
Building A Credible Catholic Future
Why not redirect your tithe to the Monks of Norcia, to help raise their new monastery?
Benedict Option In Lombardy
La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana covers my Milan speech
L’Opzione Benedetto Today In Milan
I am coming to the end of this exhilarating, exhausting Italian book …
View From Your Table
Milan, Italy
Cardinal: ‘Leave Teddy Alone!’
Top Francis adviser says McCarrick’s molestations were ‘private,’ and he’s been mistreated
The Ben Op Vs. The World
Does this bishop misunderstand the Ben Op?
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