The Costs of Truth-Telling: Dreher's Live Not By Lies

In his renowned book, The Benedict Option, Rod Dreher analyzed the rise of a "corrosive" American anti-Christian philosophy and concluded that Christians, having lost the "culture wars," needed another option in order to preserve their way of life. His new book, Live Not by Lies (the title comes from a quotation by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn) is based on the testimonies of dissidents in Eastern Europe and Russia as to how they survived - and in a perhaps uniquely Christian way overcame - the hard totalitarianism of communism. Mr. Dreher attempts to apply their lessons to what he claims is our growing American soft totalitarianism.