{"id":307101,"date":"2017-05-07T18:37:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T17:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/does-liberty-flourish-best-in-a-nation\/"},"modified":"2017-05-07T18:37:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T17:37:48","slug":"does-liberty-flourish-best-in-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/does-liberty-flourish-best-in-a-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Liberty Flourish Best in a Nation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Prologue<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/liberty?s=t\">Liberty<\/a>: freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control; freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/fraternity?s=t\">Fraternity<\/a>: a group of persons associated by or as if by ties of brotherhood; any group or class of persons having common purposes, interests, etc.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While fraternity is certainly possible without liberty, is liberty possible without fraternity?\u00a0 Not merely a fraternity of NAP adherents \u2013 that\u2019s an easy (and irrelevant) question; a fraternity \u201cas if by ties of brotherhood.\u201d\u00a0 Common culture, common custom, common language, common religion.<\/p>\n<p>It is a question ignored by many who call themselves \u201clibertarian\u201d and \u201chope\u201d for a libertarian world.\u00a0 Further, it is a question answered affirmatively by some such as these \u2013 liberty <em>can be had<\/em> in a land <em>of any culture<\/em> or <em>no common culture<\/em>.\u00a0 Is this true?\u00a0Or is this claimed out of ignorance, or worse, out of preference for a leftist, socialist (even communist) world?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/gold-bullion-prices\/?utm_source=LRC&amp;utm_medium=textad&amp;utm_campaign=goldprices\">Current Prices on popular forms of Gold Bullion<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Caldwell has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/french-coming-apart-15125.html\">written a review<\/a> of a book by Christophe Guilluy: <em>Le cr\u00e9puscule de la France d\u2019en haut<\/em> (roughly: \u201cThe Twilight of the French Elite\u201d).\u00a0 The analysis and review are applicable to the situations behind the political realities of the west today; it is also applicable to the question of the possibility of liberty without fraternity \u2013 liberty without nation.<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell describes the several books by Guilluy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026they give the best ground-level look available at the economic, residential, and democratic consequences of globalization in France. They also give an explanation for the rise of the National Front that goes beyond the usual&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/05\/bionic-mosquito\/liberty-flourish-best-nation\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prologue Liberty: freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control; freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice. Fraternity: a group of persons associated by or as if by ties of brotherhood; any group or class of persons having common purposes, interests, etc. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-307101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}