Consumerism and Community in America

Today I read Rod Dreher's comments on Freddie de Boer's piece about conservatism and the American Dream.

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You don't have to believe in God to understand social psychology, and how important it is for people who don't have much of anything to live by a code that encourages thrift, modesty and self-restraint -- because they have so very much to lose if they don't.

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After September 11, 2001, Rod Dreher, then a writer for National Review and now an editor at the Dallas Morning News, wrote a series of articles exploring how some conservatives were rejecting the free market and individual liberty espoused by Republicanism and were returning to a

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