By
Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher is another recent discovery whom I’m
somewhat surprised not to have encountered earlier – or if I did, the name
didn’t stick. I do a good bit – far too
much, if the truth be told – of what I call “net’surfing,” tending to
concentrate in the more conservative political and religious corners of the
Internet, but The American Conservative
is not a site that I make a point to visit unless I’m taken there by some link
that looks interesting. Nonetheless, given the subject matter which Dreher
tends to write about, I’d be surprised if one or more of those
interesting-looking links would not have taken me to something by him from time
to time. Nevertheless, I don’t recall his name impressing itself upon my
consciousness until just a couple of months ago. I was visiting with my mother,
and we were watching The World Over
on EWTN. That night, host Raymond Arroyo was interviewing guest Dreher,
specifically about his most recently published book, How Dante Can Save Your Life (which I am currently reading).
