Union League Club of New York

Private club on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The New Yorker reports a panel there where critics challenged Rod Dreher.

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Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision – The New YorkerJoshua RothmansettingEvent where Dreher spoke and respondents (Douthat, Rivers, Bruderhof bishop Randall Gauger) challenged him; Gauger argued the book did…

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Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision – The New Yorker — Joshua Rothman (2017)

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Two days after his visit to Hyattsville, Dreher returned to Manhattan to talk about the Benedict Option at the Union League Club, in midtown.

  • Role: setting
  • In the article: Event where Dreher spoke and respondents (Douthat, Rivers, Bruderhof bishop Randall Gauger) challenged him; Gauger argued the book did not go far enough. Afterward the panelists retreated to the club library for cocktails named for the Benedict Option.
  • Why it matters: The panel at the club gives the critics’ side of the Benedict Option.