{"id":1505,"date":"2009-02-10T12:38:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T20:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2009-02-10T12:39:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T20:39:34","slug":"choice-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/choice-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Choice &#038; authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tnr.com\/tnr\/blogs\/the_plank\/archive\/2009\/02\/09\/what-conservatism-should-look-like.aspx\">What Conservatism Should Look Like<\/a> by Andrew J. Bacevich has elicited a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tnr.com\/tnr\/blogs\/linker\/archive\/2009\/02\/09\/no-way-out.aspx\">massive retaliation<\/a> on the part of Damon Linker.  I tend to lean toward Bacevich myself, though your mileage may vary.  I believe that for all of Linker&#8217;s coherent objection that Bacevich&#8217;s argument is a fundamental attack upon the premises of Western liberal individualism, broadly understood, it is also grounded in an empirical reality as to how the human mind engages the world.  Rather than a demolition of the critical principle, I believe that Bacevich&#8217;s criticisms cast a rare skeptical eye toward the idols of our age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Conservatism Should Look Like by Andrew J. Bacevich has elicited a massive retaliation on the part of Damon Linker. I tend to lean toward Bacevich myself, though your mileage may vary. I believe that for all of Linker&#8217;s coherent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/choice-authority\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[1130,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}