Rod Dreher

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490 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Interesting Times · Preparing for ‘Weimar America’ · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

But the circumstances into which we were thrown, my son and I saw no better alternative.

I think that that's probably accurate of me 15, 20 years ago.

But the crash and burn of my family, a moving back, that...

That cracked me.

Let me back up even further, Ross.

As you brought up at the beginning, in 2002, I began writing about the abuse scandal as a faithful right-wing, paid-up Catholic, triumphalist Catholic.

Three years later, my faith was absolutely shattered by all the things I had learned, and I just couldn't believe it anymore.

It wasn't a matter of, oh, I found the flaw in the logic.

I just was exhausted by the fear and the anger.

And we ended up becoming Eastern Orthodox, not because we thought orthodoxy was free of problems, no religion is, but when I became an Orthodox, I was a very different sort of Christian.

I'd been so intellectually arrogant as a Catholic, and that's not on the Catholic church, that's on me.

I was 100% in favor of the Iraq War.

I was in New York as a journalist on 9-11, saw the South Tower fall with my own eyes, believed every word that came out of George W. Bush's mouth.

And I only realized years later what a fool I had been because I wanted someone to suffer.

And I bring all this up not to, I don't want to drag it out, but just to say that the idols I had made for myself, the Republican party, the conservative movement, the Catholic church, my family, and my father, most of all, all failed.

And so what am I left with now?

As Walker Percy would say.

Yeah, I mean, at the risk of sounding overly pious, the one thing I've been thrown back on is Jesus Christ and my faith in Jesus Christ, a man of sorrows and suffering.

The most important lesson I learned from interviewing all of the Christians who stayed behind in the Soviet sphere and resisted

None of them believed they would live to see the end of communism.

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