{"id":1199,"date":"2009-08-19T08:51:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T12:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2009-08-19T08:51:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T12:51:57","slug":"erik-prince-and-the-spell-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2009\/08\/erik-prince-and-the-spell-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Prince and the Spell of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1200\" title=\"erik_prince\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/erik_prince.jpg\" alt=\"erik_prince\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/>Fueled by Jeremy Scahill&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20090817\/scahill\" target=\"_blank\">recent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20090831\/scahill\" target=\"_blank\">revelations<\/a> about Blackwater and its founder Erik Prince in <em>The Nation<\/em>, I&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/politics\/1769\/blackwater%E2%80%99s_free-market_crusade\/\" target=\"_blank\">a new essay at <em>Religion Dispatches<\/em><\/a> exploring the concept of freedom in relationship to the business of free-market warfare.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Erik Prince discovered a passion for freedom long before founding Blackwater.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom is a mighty thing. Its exercise unleashes, its defense galvanizes. In the imagination, it conjures a dream that meets reality only in glimpses: an open field, a decisive choice, or a long-held desire finally in reach. Freedom, such ecstasy reveals, is the principle (or anti-principle) that organizes the whole universe. It is simple. But grasping it for oneself, without slipping into a new sort of bondage, is hard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/politics\/1769\/blackwater%E2%80%99s_free-market_crusade\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading<\/a> at <em>Religion Dispatches<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1200\" title=\"erik_prince\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/erik_prince.jpg\" alt=\"erik_prince\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/>Fueled by Jeremy Scahill&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20090817\/scahill\" target=\"_blank\">recent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20090831\/scahill\" target=\"_blank\">revelations<\/a> about Blackwater and its founder Erik Prince in <em>The Nation<\/em>, I&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/politics\/1769\/blackwater%E2%80%99s_free-market_crusade\/\" target=\"_blank\">a new essay at <em>Religion Dispatches<\/em><\/a> exploring the concept of freedom in relationship to the business of free-market warfare.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Erik Prince discovered a passion for freedom long before founding Blackwater.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom is a mighty thing. Its exercise unleashes, its defense galvanizes. In the imagination, it conjures a dream that meets reality only in glimpses: an open field, a decisive choice, or a long-held desire finally in reach. Freedom, such ecstasy reveals, is the principle (or anti-principle) that organizes the whole universe. It is simple. But grasping it for oneself, without slipping into a new sort of bondage, is hard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/politics\/1769\/blackwater%E2%80%99s_free-market_crusade\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading<\/a> at <em>Religion Dispatches<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,56,82,7,83,35],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economy","tag-human-rights","tag-politics","tag-powers","tag-violence","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}