The Contra-Crunchy Conservative

When I tell people I started a blog in 1999, they laugh. When I tell them the URL was www.thesnob.com , they realize I wasn't kidding. I...

This blog was born for one purpose--to thoughtfully and humorously confront Rod Dreher's crunchy-con hypothesis--and it has long since o...

What may be somewhat lost is Rod's blogging today is that he has made abundantly clear what values are negotiable when his social conse...

20, 27, 22, 30, 30, 24, 14, 9, 11, 17. Those, my friends, are the high temperatures for Pittsburgh, PA, for the last ten days. January 28t...

Consider that Rod highlighted an article that argues for "why we need a William Jennings Bryan figure in America today." Conside...

Perhaps the problem with the Middle East, commented on most recently here, could be addressed by what Rod discussed in the previous post, h...

Personally, I have never found all that plausible the idea, recently repeated here, that architecture dictates morality. ("I know I...

Before Rod praised a priest for criticizing Nancy Pelosi's views on abortion, he should have considered the possibility that, like some...

Apparently we mainstream conservatives never strongly criticized the Bush Administration or the GOP Congress, at least not until it was too...

Rod's responded somewhat critically to an article by Jim Schutze in the Dallas Observer, in which Schutze mourns the loss of the "...