{"id":33,"date":"2009-05-29T18:15:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T18:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/speechfree.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/29\/free-speech-and-the-character-of-a-people\/"},"modified":"2009-05-29T18:15:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T18:15:50","slug":"free-speech-and-the-character-of-a-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Free speech and the character of a people"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The best argument for free speech,&#8221; Nock wrote, &#8220;is what the suppression of it does to the character of a people&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; from Brian Doherty&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Radicals-Capitalism-Freewheeling-American-Libertarian\/dp\/1586485725\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1243620825&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Radicals For Capitalism<\/a>, p. 57. The book is recommended by the way, as an interesting &#8220;shadow&#8221; history of American 20th century thought.<\/p>\n<p>The Nock in question is of course <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Jay_Nock\" target=\"_blank\">Albert Jay Nock<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The best argument for free speech,&#8221; Nock wrote, &#8220;is what the suppression of it does to the character of a people&#8221;. &#8211; from Brian Doherty&#8217;s Radicals For Capitalism, p. 57. The book is recommended by the way, as an interesting &#8220;shadow&#8221; history of American 20th century thought. The Nock in question is of course Albert &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/?p=33\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s mere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free speech and the character of a people<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24],"tags":[48,337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}