Pretty much everybody who reads The Benedict Option, Rod Dreher’s Rx for Christians flailed and battered by modernity, walks away with a tenacious opinion about the book — ranging from “Praise the Lord” to “What’s this guy talking about?”
I see this a high compliment to the accomplished Dreher, blogger and editor for the American Conservative magazine, who has the gift of disgorging well-reasoned sentences and paragraphs faster than many of us can articulate a Starbucks order.
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An uncomplimentary picture takes shape in the mind: the Senate’s Democratic minority (save for a higher-minded handful) standing in a…
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Wild times, these, in America — “students” at Middlebury College driving away a distinguished intellectual with false claims about his…
May I quote myself? Thanks. I shall: “Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.” I have used this bon mot…
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The bad thing about elective politics (not the only bad thing; there’s a long list) is the philosophical and, especially,…
