Rod Dreher
The Archive
SELFLESS KIDS DONATE DISNEY-TRIP $$
September 30, 2001 | 4:00amFEW things mean more to most American kids than a vacation at Disney World. But not the five Mackay boys of Downington, Pa., who have decided the needs of the...
HOW DARE THIS JERK BUTT INTO THE CRISIS
September 28, 2001 | 4:00amA NUMBER of comfortable illusions collapsed on Sept 11. One overlooked until yesterday was the idea that Jesse Jackson's obnoxious presence in our public life could be tolerated. Who but...
HOLY SYMBOLS OF HOPE AMID THE RUBBLE
September 23, 2001 | 4:00amYOU are looking at what some people believe is a miracle. Two days after the disaster, a construction worker found several perfectly formed crosses planted upright in a pit in...
TRAGIC FOOTBALL HEROES
September 22, 2001 | 4:00amThe Bravest Football Club, the FDNY gridiron giants, was hit hard at the trade center. Eighteen of its 55-strong membership are dead or missing. "They all loved their family, they...
PAINFUL TO LIVE IN STRICKEN N.Y.
September 20, 2001 | 4:00amThis was my reply to a friend who wrote me recently, saying he wishes he were here:DEAR CHRIS, Thanks for your e-mail. I know how much you love New York...
CITY'S LEBANESE KNOW ALL ABOUT HORRORS OF WAR
September 19, 2001 | 4:00amLEBANESE Christians in New York are suffering through the World Trade Center tragedy as perhaps no others. Many of them fled war with Muslims in their homeland, only to have...
REMEMBER: THIS WAR'S ABOUT OUR WAY OF LIFE
September 18, 2001 | 4:00amTHE last time I stood on the Brooklyn Bridge, I watched thousands of people die as the mighty south tower came tumbling down. Yesterday morning, as I say a rosary...
THEY COME TO HONOR TRUE GIANTS
September 16, 2001 | 4:00amTOM Guida of Brooklyn Heights is, for the time being, partly blind, and his nerves are shot. He was nearly killed when the World Trade Center's south tower came down,...
FINEST HOUR FOR LEADER OF FREE WORLD
September 15, 2001 | 4:00amHAIL to the chief. After three days of appearing uncertain of himself in response to the crisis, George W. Bush finally found his voice, standing atop a pile of rubble...
HOW B'KLYN MOM MISSED DATE WITH DEATH
September 12, 2001 | 4:00am'I WORK at the World Trade Center. I was supposed to be there," said the trembling woman, standing on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights. "My child made me late because...
HERMAN MIGHT SHOCK THE CITY WITH AN UPSET
September 11, 2001 | 4:00amNOBODY gives Republican Herman Badillo much of a chance today against the Michael Bloomberg Goliath. But every likely Badillo voter I've talked to is passionate about their man, and most...
PERMISSIVE PARENTS CREATE MORAL VACUUM
September 7, 2001 | 4:00amTHE press has been full of horror stories for the past year about how teenagers engage in sexual behavior usually reserved for the sets of porn movies. Everybody wonders where...
SURE, HER DEATH'S TRAGIC - BUT THIS IS TOO MUCH
August 31, 2001 | 4:00amRIGHT, so we're all sad that Aaliyah is dead, and no one begrudges her a proper send-off. But a traffic-snarling, horse-drawn cortege in honor of a pop singer most people...
JESSE, SHARPTON & KWEISI ARE PROBLEM, NOT SOLUTION
August 21, 2001 | 4:00amAN Al Sharpton race for the White House is yet another sign of the radical despair and crisis of leadership in black America. The best-recognized black community spokesmen today are...
DEADLY SIN OF PRIDE LED CLERIC TO DISGRACE
August 19, 2001 | 4:00amTO the Italian public, the scandalous Milingo affair is one big joke. But not everybody is laughing. Some who know the disgraced elderly archbishop view the situation not as a...
JESSE AFFAIR NIXED PREZ RUN: EX-LOVER
August 17, 2001 | 4:00amJesse Jackson pulled the plug on his dream to run for president in 2000 because he feared the sex scandal that would result if his adulterous relationship and love child...
MEDIA MAVENS HUG A THUG IN HAVANA
August 14, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S fair to suppose Fidel Castro's mail yesterday didn't include 75th-birthday cards from MTV chief Tom Freston, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and CBS head Les Moonves. They're all under...
LYING PREZ NOW IN 'MIDDLE' OF NOWHERE
August 10, 2001 | 4:00amREAD his lips. He lied. George W. Bush said during his campaign, and publicly reiterated as recently as May, that he believed using embryonic stem cells for research purposes was...
ECHOES OF NAZI-ERA MADNESS
August 8, 2001 | 4:00amJOSEPH Cardinal Ratzinger, the pope's No. 2 man, yesterday compared Dr. Severino Antinori to Hitler, and said the mad scientist's plans to clone human beings within a year reek of...
LIFE'S STILL A BEACH - EVEN WHERE 3 DROWNED
August 7, 2001 | 4:00amA VOTIVE candle, a bleached and tattered bouquet burrowed into the sand, and a poem dedicated to "three little angels" are the only reminders of the unspeakable tragedy that occurred...