Democracy, Terror, and the Lines We Refuse to Draw

Democracy, Terror, and the Lines We Refuse to Draw

Liberal democracies did not fail because they defended themselves after 9/11, but because they spent the next two decades pretending that ideology, borders, and integration no longer mattered in a world where all three still kill people.

War Tourist Dispatches #1: Crossing the Thai-Cambodian Border

War Tourist Dispatches #1: Crossing the Thai-Cambodian Border

I am not crossing into Cambodia because I want to, but because borders now behave like quiet intelligence services, and once you have been attached to a war, even a routine visa run starts feeling like you are moving through someone else’s threat matrix.