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Article: Food for thought.(Letter to the editor)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- October 1, 2006
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With great anticipation, I delved into Gilbert Meilaender's review essay on Crunchy Cons, a new book by Rod Dreher that attempts to articulate an ideology with which I am sympathetic. Meilaender is certainly entitled to critique a book as sharply as he likes, but after reading Dreher's book myself, my suspicions were confirmed that Meilaender's review is misleading. First of all, Meilaender exaggerates the importance of comments in the book that are mentioned in passing; one person's suggestion that life in the suburbs is "boring" is interpreted and repeated in Meilaender's essay as an all-out indictment that everyone (including himself) who does not embrace Crunchy Con ...
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Article: Rise of the 'Crunchy Cons'
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;
May 28, 2006 ;
700+ words
... ... discovery of a new subspecies. But like it or not, Rod Dreher says "Crunchy Cons" like him are part of a growing nationwide subculture ... find themselves voting Republican. If they are like Dreher, a smart Dallas Morning News opinion editor who used ...
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