Live Not by Lies

I'm probably not in the target audience for this book, but I still found it, especially the first half, to be a sobering look at the direction the US is moving in today. Dreher says we're heading closer to “soft totalitarianism.” A culture-driven (rather than government-driven) version of the same type of totalizing of ideas as the Soviet and Maoist regimes had.

There seemed to be an imbalance in the second half of the book when Dreher starts to recommend solutions. If we really are in such a dire state, is meeting together in discussion groups in passive solidarity really what's called for? It may be part of a solution but it seems... lacking.

I recommend this book, even for non-Christians. It sheds a lot of light on what is going on today with the ever contracting window of what's allowable to think and talk about and offers some good historical frameworks for how to think about it.