{"id":19366,"date":"2022-06-17T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19366"},"modified":"2022-06-17T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T07:05:00","slug":"firing-line-friday-world-federalism-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/06\/17\/firing-line-friday-world-federalism-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: World Federalism Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The centralization of power on a global level is an idea that has been around for quite some time, and is often promised to be benign, despite human nature when combined with absolute power being anything but, as William F. Buckley, Jr. discusses with Norman Cousins the idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.hoover.org\/objects\/6278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">world federalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2MWLMoFEKO8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg 591w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: World Federalism Today\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Justifying criminal activity to achieve purported \u2018justice\u2019 \u2018by any means necessary\u2019 is not a recent invention by #BlackLivesMatter, but has been around for a long time, as William F. Buckley, Jr. examines in a discussion with William Moses Kunstler and his place in the lawyer\u2019s role.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The centralization of power on a global level is an idea that has been around for quite some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/06\/17\/firing-line-friday-world-federalism-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[95,24],"class_list":["post-19366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-firing-line-friday","tag-leviathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19373,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366\/revisions\/19373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}