The Localism of Fools: Rod Dreher’s Live Not by Lies
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Rod Dreher’s newest book shifts from the retreat of the Benedict Option to a frenzied flirtation with illiberalism. Despite Dreher’s insistence on a vague and creeping “soft totalitarianism,” in truth it is fear of racial and sexual minorities that animates him.