Welcome Back, Rod Dreher

FrumForum would like to formally welcome Rod Dreher back to the world of conservative blogging at The American Conservative! The author of Crunchy Cons is well known for holding heretical and apostate views in the eyes of many conservatives--notably his appreciation for granola and other "lefty" organic foods.

He unfortunately had been restricted in his blogging for a prolonged period of time. Now he is allowed to write again and Dreher will provide some of that rare, real world insight to his writing:

Leaving the New York-Washington bubble for Dallas showed me how cut off the people who run our country and media are from the lives of most Americans. Leaving the newspaper bubble for a job that specifically ruled out writing about politics and current affairs compelled me to see the world in a different way — in a way that I think is more like the way most Americans see it, to be honest.

Dreher believes that "conservative thought and activism is far too caught up in politics. We need a less ideological, more holistic and philosophical conservatism". The American Conservative is a better magazine for Dreher's hire and we look forward to his writing.