Dear President-elect Obama: OK, so I didn't vote for you. I'm a conservative — what did you expect?

Andrew Sullivan reacts to Rod Dreher. Nobody said this marriage debate would be easy. I guess it goes to the heart of the question of modernity. Dreher sees it intrinsically bound to the failures of our modern culture.

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

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.