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Rod Dreher
Civility as a fruit of maturity
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Rod Dreher
Michael Gerson: My political friendships and sympathies are increasingly determined not by ideology but by methodology. One of the most significant divisions in American public life is not between the Democrats and the Republicans; it is between the Ugly Party and the Grown-Up Party. More: The rhetoric of the Ugly Party shares some common themes:…
Early Alzheimer’s and a husband’s choice
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Rod Dreher
Via Deacon Greg Kandra, here’s a story about a husband, a wife, and early onset Alzheimer’s Disease (it turned up at age 40 in the wife). The piece aired on CBS Sunday Morning. It’s about 10 minutes long, but well worth watching. Man, what a sock in the gut. At the six-minute point there’s a…
Robert Byrd, who grew up poor
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Rod Dreher
I haven’t thought much about the passing of Sen. Robert C. Byrd. The only things I knew about him were a) that he was the undisputed master of pork-barrel legislating, b) that he was once a Klansman (though a repentant one, but some conservatives ungenerously overlooked his repentance), and c) that he took a lonely,…
How porn destroys sexuality
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Rod Dreher
From an interview with sociologist Gail Dines: In the preface of your book, you share a personal story about a conversation you had with your son over pornography. You write, “I said [to him] that should he decide to use porn, that he was going to hand over his sexuality–a sexuality that he had yet…
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