The Tobias Fünke of right-wing bloggers has been the gift that keeps on giving.
. Though Dreher is already hard at work on Substack, one still feels, as the saying goes, his much-needed absence, as when a memorably awful bar that one inexplicably kept returning to finally closes its doors. Some of Rod’s entertainment value came from the fact that his least hinged ruminations were appearing under the aegis of a serious journal of opinion; they won’t have the same pop on Substack. And, with all due respect, Howard Ahmanson Jr.
Maybe left readers of Rod just wanted a laugh. But another aspect of Rod’s appeal is that he was, to a rare degree, incredibly well suited to the medium of the blog. Blogs must be habit-formingitself. Thus blogging rewards prolixity as well as prolificacy, long posts as well as frequent ones. If you take the trouble of leaving the silo of a single social media feed for the free-range web, you want to be rewarded with more words, more commentary.
Rod’s heart is a mess, and with that daily quota of words to write, he had no time to conceal that fact. He combined a Dostoevskyan obsessive introspection with a seemingly total inability to understand how he sounded. You would expect that constant, anguished attention to one’s own sins, one’s narratives about one’s life, would lead to a certain reflexivity—the ability to anticipate others’ judgments—but these are actually not the same. At least not in Dreher’s case.
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