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Rod Dreher

The NYT reports further on the Vatican politicking around Marcial Maciel. It strikes me that the Maciel scandal, and perhaps even the wider abuse situation, is now a story that can best be told not by a journalist, but by a great novelist. Consider this passage from the Times piece today: The Rev. Alberto Athié…

Longtime readers know I’m a big fan of Apple, but I have to agree with David Carr that the huge deal he’s made over the “stolen” iPhone has been a public relations fiasco for Jobs. It has undermined Apple’s image by drawing attention to what control-freak jerks they are. Excerpt: Apple executives have often behaved…

The next big thing, reports CNN: Despite rising cable and satellite TV prices and easy access to streaming TV and movies on the Internet, few consumers have cut the cord. But that looks like it’s about to change. One in eight consumers will eliminate or scale back their cable, satellite or other pay-TV service this…

Yesterday I paid a depressingly high price for a two-pound brisket at Whole Foods. But every time I wonder if I’m paying too much for “clean” meat, I’ll read something like this. Excerpt: In 2008, Mexican authorities rejected a shipment of U.S. beef because the meat exceeded Mexico’s regulatory tolerance for copper. The rejected meat…

Over the weekend, Pope Benedict moved to take over the Legionaries of Christ, still reeling from revelations that its hero-worshiped founder, the late Fr. Marcial Maciel, was a drug-abusing, child-molesting bigamist. Some praised the Vatican for moving so strongly against the Legion, the healthy parts of which Rome will now attempt to salvage. Genevieve Kineke,…

New Orleans artist Michelle Levine posted this image to her Facebook page, saying it was one of a series of paintings she started last spring.

The Harvard historian and scholar will ruin your day with this interview he did with the Vancouver Sun. Excerpts: Q What are your thoughts on the U.K. economic situation as it relates to the election? A The situation of the United Kingdom in fiscal terms is in fact worse than the situation of Greece. That…

I passed a British Petroleum gas station today, for the first time since the Gulf oil spill. I took special notice of the sunny, green and green-friendly logo on the big plastic sign out front, and thought once again about how the companies expensively-purchased environmentally friendly image is shot all to hell. I also thought…

I’m having a tough time trying to figure out what I think of Nicholas Kristof’s column today. In it, he’s trying to defend the Catholic Church as a liberal writing to a liberal readership. Here’s the tack he takes: Yet the church leaders are right about one thing: there is often a liberal and secular…

Once again, the German taxpayer is to be greatly pitied for having to bail out Greece, which deserves to be taken the the woodshed. Check out this NYT story: ATHENS — In the wealthy, northern suburbs of this city, where summer temperatures often hit the high 90s, just 324 residents checked the box on their…
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