Actually, Mitch, when you consider a lot of the work of the president's Bioethics Council, there is something very simpactico with what you're all talking about.
I think that some of Rod's argument — which is a general back-to-basics kinda one — gets way to easily caricatured by the packaging of "crunchy conservatism." It's a lot of what the journal New Atlantis takes up — how much technology is too much? What is it doing to us? A little something about the dignity of human life...and considering the need to rewind a little before we keep racing "forward."
This is not breaking news to a Caleb, but it may be a way for folks who are turned off by the Birkenstocked packaging to consider Dreherian thinking. For people who think it's all chicken coops and wagon trains and another world.
