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Rod Dreher

My friend John Podhoretz, indulging my taste for catastrophe porn, pointed me to this 60 Minutes bit about how the Bay Area is expecting a major earthquake real soon, and making preparations. A choice passage to stiffen a castrophist’s giblet: Scientists call the Bay Area a tectonic time bomb. Earthquake faults crisscross the region, pushing…

More words about Nashville’s resilience in the face of catastrophic flooding, from Patten Fuqua, who wrote that now-famous blog entry. In this new piece, he writes: The response to my piece has been amazing, humbling, shocking and overwhelming. It’s merely a hockey blog…and my columns probably usually have trouble reaching 100 hits. I’m not claiming…

This is fairly breathtaking stuff: The pontiff said the crisis over paedophile priests was “born from sins within the church” not outside, and called for penance. In some of his strongest comments to date, Pope Benedict said the Catholic church had always suffered from internal problems, but that “today we see it in a truly…

I mentioned in the previous post that a foreign correspondent friend had e-mailed to say, worryingly, that the extreme left was gaining credibility in Greece right now, as a result of economic turmoil. Michael Lind now has a piece up talking about how the nationalist right is gaining credibility in many places, in part because…

Anne Applebaum is rattled by what’s just gone down in Greece. Excerpts: Here in front of me, I have a draft version of the Council of the European Union’s most recent “decision” on Greece. It isn’t a classified document. Bits of it have been in the newspapers; the Greek parliament has already voted to pass…

What happens to a priest who is falsely accused? Where does he go to get his reputation back? This story is a reminder that a mere accusation, no matter how unfounded, is enough to ruin a man’s reputation and clerical career, at least in this current environment.

Honestly, I don’t have an opinion one way or another about Elena Kagan’s suitability for the Supreme Court. I really don’t like that when she ran Harvard, she banned military recruiters from campus over “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” but I don’t know that that disqualifies her in my view. I also take the view that…

A chilling but plausible (to my untrained eye) account of how the stricken markets are forcing the erosion of national sovereignty in Europe. Paul Mason interprets the European Central Bank and its creation of the massive bailout package over the weekend: Why it is radical becomes clear if you compare it to the Bank of…

I hadn’t realized, till I read Diana Butler Bass’s lament, that if Elena Kagan, the president’s nominee for the Supreme Court, is confirmed by the Senate, there will be no Protestants on the High Court. Kagan is Jewish, as is Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The other five justices are Roman Catholics. Can you…

John Robb believes we’re witnessing not merely an economic crisis, but also a tectonic shift in human history. Excerpt: Instead, the current sovereign debt crisis is about something much more interesting: it’s another battle in a war for dominance between “our” integrated, impersonal global economic system and traditional nation-states. At issue is whether a nation-state…
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