Rod Dreher’s Battle Against “Portland Sharia” [Updated]
In what might be the most inept argument I have seen him make, the American Conservative pundit calls out my hometown. I respond.
In what might be the most inept argument I have seen him make, the American Conservative pundit calls out my hometown. I respond.
Rod Dreher on movement conservatism’s culture problem: One of the things that first attracted me to conservatism was that back in the 1980s, when I was in college and watching liberals elevate utter mediocrity to sacrosanct status because it was produced or embodied by a member of an approved victim group, it was the conservatives…
Time for some blawging. Rod Dreher makes the case, once again, that same-sex marriage presents a unique and unavoidable conflict that will drastically undermine religious liberty in this nation, concluding that the “conflict between gay rights and religious liberty is deep, serious and irresolvable to the satisfaction of both.” Dreher further argues that: “It’s one thing…
Conor Friedersdorf has posted another entry in the “sprawling, muddled debate about the state of the right, the role dissident conservatives should play, and the wisdom of attacking talk radio hosts” that’s been playing out recently, with Conor and Rod Dreher on one side, and fellow Gentlemen Freddie, Mark, and E.D. on the other, with…
Spurred by a harrowing investigative piece from The New Yorker on the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham, Rod Dreher has written a powerful op-ed opposing the death penalty: First things first: If Willingham really did kill his three daughters, he deserved his 2004 date with death at Huntsville. Anyone who takes the life of another…
So this is a neat new site for any of you who may read Daniel Larison, Rod Dreher, Patrick J. Deneen and the many other conservative writers who make up Front Porch Republic. I’m personally very excited because it looks like this site will focus on the very issues I’m most concerned about – culture,…