Rod Dreher is a journalist and author of several bestselling books, including "The Benedict Option," "Live Not By Lies," and "Living In Wonder."In 2025, his book "Live Not By Lies," which features the warnings that anti-Communist dissidents from the Soviet era give about the soft totalitarianism of our own time, was released as a four-part documentary film series from Angel Studios. Dreher lives in Budapest, where he serves as a Visiting Fellow of the Danube Institute. He is also a columnist for The European Conservative, and writes a daily Substack newsletter,Rod Dreher's Diary.