{"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":"
Fueled by Jeremy Scahill’s recent<\/a> revelations<\/a> about Blackwater and its founder Erik Prince in The Nation<\/em>, I’ve got a new essay at Religion Dispatches<\/em><\/a> exploring the concept of freedom in relationship to the business of free-market warfare.<\/p>\n Erik Prince discovered a passion for freedom long before founding Blackwater.<\/p>\n 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 Continue reading<\/a> at Religion Dispatches<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fueled by Jeremy Scahill’s recent<\/a> revelations<\/a> about Blackwater and its founder Erik Prince in The Nation<\/em>, I’ve got a new essay at Religion Dispatches<\/em><\/a> exploring the concept of freedom in relationship to the business of free-market warfare.<\/p>\n Erik Prince discovered a passion for freedom long before founding Blackwater.<\/p>\n 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