eala
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Post by eala on Mar 24, 2023 9:07:40 GMT
Just discovered him. Seems interesting. His 'how Dante can save your life' is currently an 'included with your membership: download on audible.
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Post by kj on Mar 24, 2023 11:55:50 GMT
I'm afraid Rod has been shown the red card from the American Conservative. Amazingly, he was being paid a six-figure sum for his blog outpourings, but eventually even the benefactor cracked after Rod's musing on penis size, and anal matters. “But one particular reader, upon reading the last of said posts, determined the blog had simply gotten too weird, according to two sources familiar with the publication. That disgruntled reader was Howard Ahmanson Jr., the heir to a California banking fortune and the sole benefactor of Dreher’s six-figure salary at TAC, which is published by American Ideas Institute, a nonprofit. This unique funding arrangement—a single donor choosing to cover one writer’s entire salary—was paired with an even more unusual editorial arrangement: Dreher was allowed to publish directly on TAC’s site without any revisions or legal oversight, according to the two sources. Dreher, Ahmanson, and Emile Doak, TAC’s executive director, did not respond to requests for comment. Ahmanson had apparently long admired the work of Dreher, who has authored numerous conservative books and previously wrote for the Beliefnet blog and The Dallas Morning News. But according to the two sources, Ahmanson began to sour on his beneficiary in 2021, when Dreher, in a blog post debating circumcision, wrote the following: “All us boys wanted to stare at his primitive root wiener when we were at the urinal during recess, because it was monstrous. Nobody told us that wieners could look like that.” Incredibly, that was the “first red flag” for Ahmanson, one source told me, adding that the rift had been building for about a year. Some of Dreher’s commentary on the gay and transgender communities also proved off-putting to Ahmanson, such as his lurid musings on anal sex, rectal bleeding, and the “partially rotted off” nose of a gay man who contracted monkeypox. “At some point, he basically decided, 'This is too weird,’” the source, paraphrasing Ahmanson, explained to me. “‘I don’t want to read this or pay for this anymore.’” HOW ROD DREHER’S BLOG GOT A LITTLE “TOO WEIRD” FOR THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE |
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Post by eala on Mar 24, 2023 21:00:40 GMT
sounds odd alright
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Post by cato on Mar 27, 2023 16:55:02 GMT
I am quite a Rod Dreher fan and read him most days. I have followed him onto Substack.
His books on the Benedict Option and Dante are excellent and I highly recommend them.
To address the icky points KJ referred to above. Dreher is very prolific and tends to publish long stream of conscious meanderings at times. He had no editor to cut out some of the madder stuff that goes through his head I assume. He has a very American tendency to "overshare".
I read those remarks at the time and it did raise a Catonian eyebrow but they are a tiny proportion of his writing. I don't think they are fair reflection of his work.
He can tend towards catastrophising but broadly I agree with his stance on the decline of Western Christian Civilisation. He us definitely worth reading.
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