Results for “Dreher”
The Problem of Undertheorized Agrarianism in Most Actually Argued Localism
...Linker’s thoughts about Dreher’s book. Damon thought the book was wonderful too; he calls Dreher’s depiction of his sister Ruthie’s life and death at age 42 from cancer “an emotionally…
Ruthie Leming’s (and Rod Dreher’s) Little Way
...place in the South becomes, through Dreher’s words, total–and totally believable. Of course, no life is without conflict, and no decent memoir is either. So Dreher casts himself from the…
Fidelity to the Truth in an Illiberal Time, on Rod Dreher’s Live Not by Lies
...dying throughout the Western world” (29). Although Dreher never cites Deneen, his influence is apparent to anyone who has read Why Liberalism Failed. In part 1, Dreher argues that “soft…
Pondering St. Francisville, Gilead, and our Stories of Place
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Jeremy Beer’s recent review of The Little Way of Ruthie Leming leads me to once again reflect upon Rod Dreher’s excellent book (about which I’ve…
Warnings Heeded and Unheeded: A Review of Live Not by Lies
...Live Not by Lies, Rod Dreher strikes a chord that sounds dark or even pathological to some. They are concerned that Dreher is a tiresome alarmist, or even worse, that…
Live Not by Lies from Neither the Left nor Right
...themselves. Essentially, Dreher reasserts his Benedict Option thesis as a way to prepare ourselves for the coming storm. Both Dreher and Legutko find within the new soft totalitarianism elements of…
The Grammar of Enchantment
...fact, while I have described Dreher’s approach as explicitly Christian, it would be more accurate to describe his approach as explicitly Eastern Orthodox. Dreher is clearly aware of how peculiar…
From Technological Nostalgia to Technological Faithfulness
...false dichotomy here: Dreher can see no way for technological innovations to make it easier to connect with others in-person. For example, Dreher himself acknowledges that the Internet has made…
Dreher Reviews Palin
Quote: Palin positions herself as a populist, but her populism is entirely cultural. She never misses an opportunity to tell us how weepy she gets when she thinks about our…
You Say Liturgy, I Say Lechery
...thinks our front porch neighbor Rod Dreher has a gay fixation. Andrew Sullivan cheers him on. Linker is especially irked that Dreher would fall back on church teaching as support…
On Dreher’s Benedict Option, the Christians and Localists Who Can Live It, and the Ones Who Can’t
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Rod Dreher and I aren’t close friends, but like many Front Porch Regulars, I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to associate with and learn from…
Dreher, Cheney, the Law
Our fellow Porcher Rod Dreher says Dick Cheney is an outlaw. Of course he is right, after a certain manner of speaking, and I have no particular comment one way…
Rod Dreher Praises The Violent and the Fallen
Last month, Rod Dreher discussed two of the poems from my forthcoming book, The Violent and the Fallen, on his blog at The American Conservative. Dreher writes, when I read…
Place Isn’t Just Geographical
...be placed. Rod Dreher has responded with a similar defense of the power of imaginative stories to those who wished that he would have provided a clearer theoretical articulation of…
Rod Dreher On Living In Wonder
Rod Dreher’s most recent book is Living In Wonder, Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age. Our conversation was recorded the day after Pope Francis died, so that was…
Rod Dreher’s New Venture
One the inspirations for Front Porch Republic (if not, unfortunately, an active participant in FPR itself), Rod Dreher of Crunchy Con fame, has taken up a new gig: he is…
There’s No Place Like Home
...conservative lifestyle. Rod Dreher on the program sealed the deal, and a road trip it would be. As it turned out, Dreher would have to cancel at the last minute.…
The Culture of Atomic Eros and the Hatred of the Church
...Benedict XVI? The denunciations from dubious voices like Maureen Dowd and more respectable, if over-hasty, ones like Rod Dreher? It cannot. No one explanation could. Our age is so sered…
Rod’s Divided Over Progress (And So Are We All)
...of progress, and the degree to which we are, at the same time, culturally or religiously or ideologically motivated to resist those same blessings. Rod Dreher’s recent encounter with the…
Rod Dreher at Cornerstone University Tonight
For readers in Western Michigan, Rod Dreher is speaking at Cornerstone University tonight at 7pm in the Matthews Auditorium. He is talking about Community and The Little Way of Ruthie…
Rod Dreher Speaking in Wichita, KS
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] If it so happens that someone who sees this post lives in or within driving distance of Wichita, KS, then let me invite you: the…
With One Eye Squinted: R.R. Reno and Living Life in a Time of Death
...Dreher draws. The line Dreher cites is from a short story that O’Connor would later extend into her novel The Violent Bear It Away. This novel centers on the travails…
Can’t Buy Me Love
...worth asking, but I agree with Rusty Reno that it is not without an adequate answer. This reminds me of Maggie Gallagher leveling the same basic critique of Dreher’s neo-traditionalism…
Turn the Other Cheeks
Rod Dreher says Pelosi is right to fret about political violence. He argues that it is evil to “lead people to believe [Obama is] a socialist conspiring to install an…