Crunchy Con - Philistine critic confesses her shame

Crunchy Con - Philistine critic confesses her shame

Rod Dreher remembers sharing a cab with two well-known film critics after a screening: "It was a very violent film of some sort, as I recall, and the thought occurred to me as we rounded Columbus Circle -- I do remember that part vividly -- these people don't have children. They could analyze the film more coolly than I -- who was not a father yet, but who would be in a few months -- in part because they didn't imagine, or didn't seem to imagine, what it would be like to raise kids in a society where lots of people had their moral imaginations informed by eviscerations and the like."