War, Democracy, and Frontiers
b'The longest and most expensive war in U.S. history is the ongoing war in Afghanistan. What impact has the nineteen-year-old conflict had on U.S. democracy? According to\\xa0Benjamin Hopkins, the Afghanistan war has fundamentally damaged the social and political fabric of the U.S. Hopkins also describes what he calls frontier governmentality, the focus of\\xa0his latest book.\\nBenjamin Hopkins,\\xa0\\u201cThe War That Destroyed America: Afghanistan\\u2019s Coming Bill\\u201d\\xa0Critical Asian Studies\\nBenjamin Hopkins,\\xa0Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State\\xa0Harvard University Press, 2020\\nThe post War, Democracy, and Frontiers appeared first on KPFA.'