Dreher vs. "Integralism"

This right here is why integralism -- Orthodox and Catholic both -- is bad. It might sound good on paper, but it comes right down to this kind of thing. It is likely that Kirill really believes this. But if he didn't, would he feel at liberty to speak his mind? https://t.co/TlbgjMco1q

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) February 27, 2022

Deneen Responds ot Dreher's Take on the NYT Interview

This article is a big mess, in which the author appears to have decided last minute to make it about Hungary, and tried to shoehorn all the other interviews into a narrative in which the subject was never discussed in interviews. https://t.co/vu4fI2GB92

— Patrick Deneen (@PatrickDeneen) October 20, 2021

The "New Right" Under Attack

But the oligarchs don't take them as serious threats. It's just a dog whistle to let their subjects know how the thought criminals are and to treat them accordingly.

It’s always a good sign to be condemned by the @nytimes, so congrats @Vermeullarmine , @PatrickDeneen , @roddreher , @SohrabAhmari & all the others!https://t.co/8N4sAIwOTt

— Péter Heltai (@peterheltai) October 19, 2021

Edward Pentin Interviews Rod Dreher

Full Interview With Rod Dreher on His Book ‘Live Not By Lies’ and the Growing ‘Soft Totalitarianism’ of Secular Ideology in the West https://t.co/7wEfLJtfms

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 16, 2021

An Interesting Episode of The General Eclectic?

I enjoyed filling in for @roddreher on "The General Eclectic" last week.

A great discussion on:

▪️Post-liberal conservatism
▪️Localism vs nationalism
▪️The limits of religious liberty

with shoutouts to @SohrabAhmari, @RyanTAnd, @PatrickDeneen, @DouthatNYT, and more⬇️ https://t.co/o19oqLKoKK

— Emile Doak (@EADoak) June 21, 2021

What "Reactionary"?

Dreher: I’ve been coming to Central Europe for three years now, and I’ve been hearing the same thing from young Catholic conservatives: what you Americans and western Europeans are today, we will be tomorrow. https://t.co/fooYyygRoQ

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) April 26, 2021

Let's be precise: We are looking for state solutions to ethical problems, and mass population centers are an ethical problem, caused by and in turn causing the state.

Can anything be done to prevent the slide of decadence in large mass population centers made possible by wealth founded upon cheap energy?

While ultimately each one must decide on the question of G*d and live that decision, institutionalized "religion" is not enough to save a West suffering from the cancerous growths that are states and their mass population centers; those growths must be directly addressed. Dreher is wrong to think this is a problem of "liberal democracy" -- it is a problem of oligarchs exercising control over the state (and their struggle with one another), and changing ideology of some of these "elites" masks the underlying problem.

Be Like Kerwick

Don't be like low-T Dreher who has to be critical of Kerwick in order to remain "respectable." "Macho display" a problem on the "right"? Not at all. Dreher thinks that "protests" and "legislation" are courses of action still available for Reds. If he lived in 1776, he'd still be dithering about what position to take on the war for American Independence.

NEW Dreher: “Owning the libs” is fine, I guess, but it’s not the same as accomplishing real change. I have zero interest in lib-owners who separate the gullible from their money and rage impotently (but profitably) while the Left consolidates victories. https://t.co/V3dbf9P0UW

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) April 23, 2021

If Rod Dreher Likes It

Does it mean that it is bad? No. But still, not an endorsement I would seek.

The Hillbilly Thomists' second album is out, and it's *fantastic*. Here's my interview with the bluegrass gospel band, composed of Dominican preachers. If you hadn't thought of Catholic priests as bluegrass pickers, boy are you in for a treat. https://t.co/h33RG7ZQRu

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) January 31, 2021

Dreher Would Never Have This Mindset

It feels safer out here, surrounded on all sides by friends and family, where we know the local government officials, sheriff’s deputies, and highway patrolmen. We feel we can more easily protect ourselves, provide for ourselves from a survival perspective, and our neighbors notice strangers and let us know when they see them! Honestly, there’s a lot to be said for living in the country. If you can live 30-45 minutes outside a major metropolitan area, in my opinion, that’s the sweet spot.

He served 22 years as a Military Intelligence and Space Operations officer. He deployed to South Korea, Kosovo, and Iraq. he became Kansas City, Missouri’s Chief Innovation Officer. He's worried. Alex Braszko sits down with @roddreher: https://t.co/rGbPR5Azkm

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) January 25, 2021

A retired military intel officer read #LiveNotByLies and said it's spot on about threat to liberty, esp religious liberty, from surveillance capitalism & state. In this interview, he advises orthodox Christians & nonconformist conservatives how to prepare: https://t.co/EXvtgBTdXn

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) January 25, 2021

Guess the SSH Status of the Writer of the Letter

Don't be that guy. Build up your tribe. At Dreher's blog, like attracts like, and he holds up those like him to be "reasonable" just like him. Confirmation bias and all that.

"'I feel alone, like I am no longer part of this country that I loved, that I still serve, and that I want the best for. But I feel like this is the most real place I can be. I believe like this is what it actually feels like to be a follower of Christ.'" https://t.co/q7siHQ1s4G

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) January 20, 2021

Dreher Promoting the IDW

".@ConceptualJames Lindsay explains that fellow travelers in cult ideologies end up thinking that the non-cultists are the crazy ones who have to be suppressed." The foremost necessity right now is to live in reality. https://t.co/yY9nI2wCQd

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) January 18, 2021

This May Not Be So Bad

Here's a fun thing y'all can all register for that will happen next Saturday. My Millennial colleague @herandrews and my Gen X self will speak ill of the Boomers in a live webcast about Helen's great new book. Sign up here: https://t.co/LnjaKQBQKT

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) January 15, 2021

Dreher: "I'm the Reasonable Conservative Adult in the Room"

Dreher: "I have every confidence that the Democrats, understandably outraged by all this, will massively overreach, and further radicalize the Right. We’re not talking about a minority here, the pro-Trump Right. We’re talking about tens of millions." https://t.co/l4CAeuByAN

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) January 14, 2021

Advice to an Atomized, Alienated, and Deracinated Young Man

There are a lot of desperate people in America today. https://t.co/LtMzah99Ts

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) January 14, 2021

All Dreher can offer is his brand of Christianity, not even a substantial "man up" call, which is what the young man needs. Find your tribe and build it up.

Expanding His Brand

AmConMag

A Discussion of the Bruderhof

ohey it's a @NorannV shoutout by @roddreher https://t.co/7AgUfTk6Zj

— 𝔖𝔲𝔰𝔞𝔫𝔫𝔞𝔥 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔨 (@suzania) December 11, 2020

Related:

@FrontPorchRepub on my @Plough colleague Clare Stober's new book ANOTHER LIFE IS POSSIBLE:https://t.co/SIxUulg4xH

— Peter Mommsen (@PeterMommsen) December 10, 2020

Confirming What We Could Guess about Him

Birzer's sociosexual status is low, like Dreher's. One can only guess what their wives might be like.

Three Men I Admire (essay by Bradley J. Birzer) https://t.co/znSK6isjee

— ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) December 2, 2020

Imaginative Conservative

Jonathan Pageau Interviews Rod Dreher

My discussion with @roddreher on the totalitarian possibilities of our immediate future. Enjoy. https://t.co/0rr4BTGQGO

— Jonathan Pageau (@PageauJonathan) November 23, 2020

Separation Now

"J.D. Vance wrote an emotionally and culturally complex book, but the film version is simple rags-to-riches melodrama (though with fine performances, especially Glenn Close as Mamaw)." But don't hate it because it humanizes Trump voters. https://t.co/Ey3QuVX33t

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) November 24, 2020

Dreher Interviews Carl Trueman

Libido dominandi.

Dreher: Church historian Carl Trueman's new book "explains why traditional religion and moral values systems are dissolving in the acid bath of modernity, and why it is so difficult to counteract this effect." A must-read: https://t.co/lZM6RVvgUm

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) November 21, 2020

AmConMag

And an interview of Carl Trueman by Carl Ols0n.