For those who think I’ve been too hard on Rod and Crunchy Conservatism you should take note of Joseph Rago’s review in New Criterion. While I obviously agree with some of his substantive points, I think he’s too harsh. There’s much good to be found in Rod’s book, as I’ve said. And I think Rago and other critics, including me, haven’t thought enough about why the book elicited such a chorus of me-too agreement from so many self-indentified conservatives. I find the me-tooism troubling, but instructive as well.