Rod Dreher

Rob Dreher is an American conservative journalist. Formerly on the staff of National Review, he now is a columnist for the Dallas Morning News and a contributor to Beliefnet.

He has written about possible conflict of interest by U.S. Ambassadors to Saudi Arabia, who take Saudi-supportive positions, sometimes Saudi-funded, after their service.

He has been criticized for holding a position, according to Robert Stacy McCain in the conservative and deliberately provocative American Spectator, "Republicans are never going to succeed if they listen to those who tell them the reason they've been losing elections is that the GOP is too 'mean-spirited'...Chief among the choirboys of niceness is Rod Dreher, the former National Review staffer, Dallas Morning News columnist and BeliefNet blogger. In his 2006 book Crunchy Cons, Dreher accused the "conservative mainstream" of believing that "accumulating wealth and power is…the point of life," and further declared, 'The tragic flaw of Western economics is that it is based on exploiting and encouraging greed and envy.'"