http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/ Rod Dreher, a columnist for the Dallas Morning News and author of "Crunchy Cons," offers a " crunchy " conservative take on politics, faith, and culture. en Copyright 2008 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:39:58 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/imgs/bg_icon.gif http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/ 82 100 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 462030http://www.feedburner.com You want a real-world reason to heed Jesus's warnings about the spiritual death that can accompany wealth? Read Eric Konigsberg's fascinating NYT profile today of psychotherapists to the super-rich. The soul-destroying pride really stands out. Excerpt: Dr. Stone said those...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/crunchycon/~4/328855480" height="1" width="1"/> Crunchy Con http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/crunchycon/~3/328855480/the-wages-of-wealth.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/the-wages-of-wealth.html Culture Wealth Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:39:58 -0500 http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/the_wages_of_wealth_comments.html Rod Dreher http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetItemData?uri=crunchycon&itemurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.beliefnet.com%2Fcrunchycon%2F2008%2F07%2Fthe-wages-of-wealth.htmlhttp://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/the-wages-of-wealth.html James Poulos mines gold from the knockout credits sequence of "Wall-E," which in his view offers a telling commentary on the meaning, or lack thereof, of 20th-century art -- which, as Poulos suggests, given the dystopic setting of the film,...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/crunchycon/~4/328786944" height="1" width="1"/> Crunchy Con http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/crunchycon/~3/328786944/walle-and-art-history.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/walle-and-art-history.html Culture Decline and fall art civilization James Poulos Wall-E Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:46:26 -0500 http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/walle_and_art_history_comments.html Rod Dreher http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetItemData?uri=crunchycon&itemurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.beliefnet.com%2Fcrunchycon%2F2008%2F07%2Fwalle-and-art-history.htmlhttp://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/walle-and-art-history.html If you're not following the "Wall-E" thread below, you're missing some interesting stuff....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/crunchycon/~4/328434106" height="1" width="1"/> Crunchy Con http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/crunchycon/~3/328434106/that-great-walle-thread.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/that-great-walle-thread.html Culture Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:43:37 -0500 http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/that_great_walle_thread_comments.html Rod Dreher http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetItemData?uri=crunchycon&itemurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.beliefnet.com%2Fcrunchycon%2F2008%2F07%2Fthat-great-walle-thread.htmlhttp://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/that-great-walle-thread.html Ross Douthat, on the place of Rush Limbaugh in US politics: In the same way that every ambitious Democratic politician ought to be attuned to how Jon Stewart covers the news, so every right-of-center politico should keep an ear to...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/crunchycon/~4/328434107" height="1" width="1"/> Crunchy Con http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/crunchycon/~3/328434107/rush-limbaugh-the-right.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/rush-limbaugh-the-right.html Conservatism Media conservatism Reihan Salam Ross Douthat Rush Limbaugh Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:37:24 -0500 http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/rush_limbaugh_the_right_comments.html Rod Dreher http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetItemData?uri=crunchycon&itemurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.beliefnet.com%2Fcrunchycon%2F2008%2F07%2Frush-limbaugh-the-right.htmlhttp://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/rush-limbaugh-the-right.html Seriously, I don't get what the big deal is about the new discovery of the Hebrew inscriptions on a stone. Here's the story from today's NYT. Excerpt: A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/crunchycon/~4/328216673" height="1" width="1"/> Crunchy Con http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/crunchycon/~3/328216673/am-i-missing-something.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/am-i-missing-something.html Religion (general) archaelogy Jesus Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:54:54 -0500 http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/am_i_missing_something_comments.html Rod Dreher http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetItemData?uri=crunchycon&itemurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.beliefnet.com%2Fcrunchycon%2F2008%2F07%2Fam-i-missing-something.htmlhttp://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/am-i-missing-something.html When the Katrina disaster hit Louisiana, it was a hard but entirely anticipated blow to realize that so much of the destruction could have been prevented. For decades, the entire state had been expecting the Big One, the hurricane that...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/crunchycon/~4/328203578" height="1" width="1"/> Crunchy Con http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/crunchycon/~3/328203578/the-preventable-crisis.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/the-preventable-crisis.html Economics Peak oil energy crisis Peak oil Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:18:58 -0500 http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/the_preventable_crisis_comments.html Rod Dreher http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetItemData?uri=crunchycon&itemurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.beliefnet.com%2Fcrunchycon%2F2008%2F07%2Fthe-preventable-crisis.htmlhttp://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/07/the-preventable-crisis.html http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=crunchycon