{"id":142,"date":"2008-11-26T12:31:21","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T20:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=142"},"modified":"2008-12-05T15:14:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T23:14:53","slug":"using-my-real-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/using-my-real-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Using my real name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having put up a few posts under my real name already, I should introduce myself. Mine may be a familiar byline to some of you who follow issues of law and litigation; my main blog is <a href=\"http:\/\/overlawyered.com\">Overlawyered<\/a>, where I just did a <a href=\"http:\/\/overlawyered.com\/2008\/11\/secularrightorg\/\">post<\/a> inviting readers to check out Secular Right. My leanings are more to the libertarian side (though conservative by libertarian standards) with some &#8220;Center-Right&#8221; thrown in. I&#8217;ve written for many well-known conservative periodicals and for a while did a column for Reason, where I explored frictions between religious and secular forces on the right <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/news\/show\/30460.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/news\/show\/30789.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/news\/show\/30727.html\">here<\/a>, for example. <\/p>\n<p>I am fascinated by the skill that some elements of the religious conservative movement have shown in adapting for their own use the paraphernalia of identity politics: the cultivation of a sense of being besieged and persecuted, the hair-trigger sensitivity to disrespect, the litigious legal defense groups, and so forth. Under it all, of course, may lurk genuine grievances, just as the identity blocs cultivated by the left also proffer some legitimate complaints worthy of redress. But it&#8217;s very different from the frame of mind associated until fairly recently with the conservative movement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having put up a few posts under my real name already, I should introduce myself. Mine may be a familiar byline to some of you who follow issues of law and litigation; my main blog is Overlawyered, where I just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/using-my-real-name\/\">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":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"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=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}