{"id":1191,"date":"2009-01-07T14:58:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T22:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2009-01-07T14:58:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T22:58:48","slug":"richard-john-neuhaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/richard-john-neuhaus\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard John Neuhaus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard John Neuhaus is apparently near death.\u00a0\u00a0 Most of what I know about the man comes from his starring role in Damon Linker&#8217;s 2006 book <em>Theocons<\/em>.\u00a0 The rest is three or four encounters at conservative functions, when he seemed cordial enough.\u00a0\u00a0 I subscribed to <em>First Things<\/em> for a while when I was still a churchgoer, but never found much of interest in it and let the subscription lapse after a couple of years.\u00a0 I do recall that famous 1991(?) essay arguing that an atheist couldn&#8217;t be a good citizen.\u00a0 (Though IMS Neuhaus graciously allowed that we might go on being citizens anyway.)<\/p>\n<p>Linker gives Neuhaus a bad press\u00a0\u2014 anti-science, aggressive in arguing for religion in public life, and so on.\u00a0 It&#8217;s unfair to judge from a single book, of course, especially a hostile book when the poor guy is on his deathbed, so I won&#8217;t say anything more.\u00a0\u00a0 Other contributors might have better-informed opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard John Neuhaus is apparently near death.\u00a0\u00a0 Most of what I know about the man comes from his starring role in Damon Linker&#8217;s 2006 book Theocons.\u00a0 The rest is three or four encounters at conservative functions, when he seemed cordial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/richard-john-neuhaus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}