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Rod Dreher

On the drive to work this morning, I listened to a Mars Hill Audio Journal interview with the Orthodox Christian theologian David Bentley Hart , in which Hart discussed his book “Atheist Delusions,” which attacks Ditchkins et alia. In the interview, Hart observed that there is a juvenile naivete at the heart of these New…

The late media critic Neil Postman famously observed that the rise of broadcast media meant the end of childhood. His point was that childhood as a period of relative innocence is a socially constructed phenomenon, and is possible only when the adult world conspires to create a more or less impermeable bubble of innocence around…

According to the Freakonomics guys, black babies with “superblack” names (Roshanda, Darnell, etc.) don’t do as well economically as black babies with “whiter” names — but it’s not because of the name itself. This is why, they say: What kind of parent is most likely to give a child such a distinctively black name? The…

I’m really enjoying Templeton Prize winner Charles Taylor’s massive tome, “A Secular Age.” Unlike most philosophers, Taylor is a crystal-clear writer, and has the gift of being able to discuss profound and complex thoughts without giving himself over to impenetrable jargon. In the passage I read last night, Taylor discusses the fundamental psychological shift that…

I don’t care what you’re doing, stop right now and watch this video postcard from New Orleans last night, passed along by a fellow Louisiana expat. Imagine the joy of these people, who have been down for so long, but who last night were on top of the world. Watch especially the bus driver —…

That’s the implication of a new cosmological finding. Excerpt from the report in New Scientist: If this doesn’t blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab’s Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: “If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we…

I watched the big game at the home of new friends and neighbors, all folks with Front Porch Republic sympathies. This morning, one of our crew, a Catholic theologian, writes to say: Every adult in the house last night was a serious Christian who engages with modernity with some degree of circumspection and critical distance.…

You’ve heard of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, the approach to religion that sees God as a heavenly Dr. Phil, only to be consulted when we have a problem, which He’s supposed to solve, but otherwise Someone we would prefer would stay out of our lives? Well, Jacob Weisberg suggests, in so many words, that we Americans…

This was the play of the game last night:Didn’t it remind you of this?:The Saints’ Tracy Porter was the hero who made both interceptions.

So I take the dog out for his morning constitutional, only to find that we can’t safely cross the parking lot in front of our apartment. It’s on a hillside and has patches of black ice all over it; I nearly slipped when I stepped off the sidewalk. Dog wouldn’t do his business near the…
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