After releasing his book about Crunchy Cons, Rod Dreher released a blog of the same name.
He created this blog, entitled Crunchy Con, in 2006 and maintained it on Beliefnet, a lifestyle website.
In 2010, Dreher renamed the blog “Rod Dreher” and began shifting his focus from political to cultural topics.
He also worked as an editorial writer and The Dallas Morning News but left in late 2009 to become the publications director for the John Templeton Foundation.
This stint didn’t last too long, as he tweeted on August 20, 2011, that he had left the role to return to writing full-time.
He published another book in 2013 called The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, about his childhood in Louisiana, most importantly, his sister’s battle with cancer.
He further mined this topic in 2015 when he released a book called How Dante Can Save Your Life, a memoir about how reading Dante’s Divine Comedy helped him cope after his sister passed away.
However, during these early years, Dreher started gaining the most prominence for his blog at the American Conservative, which he started in 2008.
He is now a senior editor at the publication, and as of 2017, the blog receives more than a million page views per month.
