{"id":1318,"date":"2009-01-19T10:35:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T18:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2009-01-19T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T18:35:12","slug":"dispatches-from-the-culture-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/dispatches-from-the-culture-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches from the Culture Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many readers will already be familiar with that lively secularist redoubt at ScienceBlogs, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/\">Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a>, where Ed Brayton often crosses swords with creationists, WorldNetDaily, and a wide assortment of other religion-inspired groups and publications ranging from Focus on the Family to Scientology. I&#8217;m not sure what Ed&#8217;s own politics are, but I&#8217;ve tended to classify Dispatches as at least secular-right-friendly, since it&#8217;s relatively low on the sort of gratuitous preassumed leftishness one meets with in many such enterprises. If you&#8217;re not already familiar with Dispatches this makes a good time to check it out, if only because of the variety on display: Ed has just returned from a vacation during which six (!) guestbloggers stepped in to fill his shoes. Among the six was friend of this site Jon Rowe, who <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/01\/liberty_god.php\">posted<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/01\/more_on_rights_god.php\">twice<\/a> on the role of religion as a possible underpinning of legal rights, and whose farewell post, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/01\/farewell.php\">here<\/a>, ended with an enormously controversial semi-appreciation of George W. Bush, along with less controversial tributes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secularright.org\">this site<\/a> and to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandefur.typepad.com\/\">Tim Sandefur<\/a>. And another was Reason investigative journalist and police-abuse specialist Radley Balko, some of whose contributions can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/01\/obama_dems_want_4_billion_for.php\">here<\/a> (federal subsidies to police), <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/01\/a_mild_defense_of_the_cop_in_t.php\">here<\/a> (&#8220;mild&#8221; defense of cop in BART shooting &#8212; did someone mention controversy?), and <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/01\/the_drug_wars_collateral_damag.php\">here<\/a> (Drug War). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many readers will already be familiar with that lively secularist redoubt at ScienceBlogs, Dispatches from the Culture Wars, where Ed Brayton often crosses swords with creationists, WorldNetDaily, and a wide assortment of other religion-inspired groups and publications ranging from Focus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/dispatches-from-the-culture-wars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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\/1318"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}