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Rod Dreher

Matthew, looking over my shoulder just now: “Hey, you’ve got a new operating system.”Me: “Yeah. My hard drive crashed on this laptop the other day. The tech guy at work installed a new one, and it had Windows 7 on it.”Matthew, voice dripping with fake sincerity: “Mama! Mama! We can have a Windows 7 launch…

This sounds horrible: six crewmen will have to live in a small space capsule for 520 days, so scientists can observe the psychological effects of a mission to Mars. They’ll even have to eat food stored on board from Day One. Can you imagine? As Boing Boing says, they have all the down side of…

The new British prime minister is the first major world leader who comes from my generation. He is 43. I am 43. Anybody care to venture how a Gen X world leader will be different, both in style and substance, from Baby Boomers? Obama is an interesting case because though he’s technically a Baby Boomer,…

Lisa Margonelli delivers the discomfiting truth that there are probably no easy villains in the Gulf oil spill disaster — and what that means for our reliance on “easy” oil. Excerpt: Where did that oil spill go? We’ve got millions of barrels of oil sloshing around off the most sensitive coastline on the continent, and…

Christine Rosen asks: What ever happened to embarrassment? Why are an increasing number of us comfortable bringing our private activities – from personal hygiene to intimate conversation – into public view? Bernstein and others place some of the blame on the desensitization wrought by reality television and social networking sites like Facebook, both of which…

Sh*t My Kids Ruined — a website you can contribute to. Like this poor fellow whose white shirt suffered the effects of a Mustard Diaper Blowout: UPDATE: For the sake of sensitivos who have complained of distress at the sight of a Mustard Diaper Blowout, and for ye who may be reading this blog over…

David Brooks really is onto something in his column about how you can’t really say anything bad about Elena Kagan, whose achievements speak for themselves, but how it’s kind of creepy that the only thing she’s really known for is … achievement. Excerpt: What we have is a person whose career has dovetailed with the…

Yesterday Pope Benedict’s astonishing words of truth-telling about the sex abuse scandal were reported. And now I wish to draw your attention to an absolutely remarkable speech that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, the Catholic primate of Ireland, has just delivered, on the state of the Church in Ireland. It is bleak and sobering, but it is…

One of the cartoonists who got in trouble with Muslims for drawing the Prophet was physically attacked in a classroom lecture about free speech by one or more lunatics who broke his glasses. The Associated Press filed a 14-paragraph dispatch about the event, and never once indicate that his attackers were Muslims — a fact…

This material is going to be familiar to many of you from an earlier series of blog postings here, but here’s a piece I’ve done on obesity as a moral issue. Excerpt: Anyone who wishes to exercise self-discipline has to swim against powerful cultural currents. But it can be done, and done relatively inexpensively. I’ve…
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