Rod Dreher

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Rod Dreher (b. 1967), originally from St. Francisville, Louisiana, is a Dallas-based writer and editor. He is an assistant editorial page editor (and occasional columnist) for The Dallas Morning News and a contributor to The American Conservative and National Review. Previously, he served as a columnist for The New York Post. He also runs a blog called "Crunchy Con" at beliefnet.com.

In 2002, Dreher wrote an essay in National Review that explored a sub-category of American conservatism he defined as granola conservatism, and whose adherents he described as "crunchy cons." He defined these individuals as traditional conservatives who believed in environmental conservation, frugal living, the preservation of traditional family values, in addition to expressing a skepticism of what they perceive to be some of the excesses of free market capitalism; they are also usually religious.

Four years later Dreher published a book that expanded upon the themes of this manifesto. This book was entitled Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save America (or At Least the Republican Party).^[1]

Dreher holds a B.A. in journalism from Louisiana State University. Raised a Methodist, he later converted to Catholicism. On October 12, 2006, he publicly announced his conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy.^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ "Crunchy Culture: Author Rod Dreher Has Defined A Political Hybrid: The All-Natural, Whole-Grain Conservative", by Hank Stuever. The Washington Post, May 3, 2006
2. ^ "Orthodoxy and Me"

[edit] External links

• Mini-bio from The Dallas Morning News
• Crunchy Con: Beliefnet.com
• Moosewood Republicans New York Times' Book Review
• Birkenstocked Burkeans
• The Godless Party Media Bias & Blindness—And the Big Story They Missed
• What Is a Crunchy Conservative? NPR Commentary
• Crunchy Cons Rising: An Interview with Rod Dreher
• God, Guts, and Granola A critical review of Dreher's "Crunchy Cons" by Washington Times' editor R.S. McCain.
• Huh? Going After the Crunchies A critical review of Dreher's "Crunchy Cons" by Jonah Goldberg of National Review.
• Hold the Granola A critical review of Dreher's "Crunchy Cons" by Gilbert Meilaender in First Things.
• Whole Foods Conservatives Review published in the New York Post.
• The Contra-Crunchy Conservative Light-hearted parody and criticism of Crunchy Conservatism.
• Crunchy Conned By Daniel Nichols