Nothing Sacred About Borders
with Jonn Elledge
The latest in our FPA series of on-line conversations about topics that might interest members and others interested in the global flows of information.
“Good fences make good neighbors" claimed poet Robert Frost., forgetting about the Iron Curtain,. Jonn Elledge’s book explains how lousy fences start wars. In an entertaining discussion of claims to “eternal” ownership of territory and “sacred” boundaries he dissects the assumptions of sovereignty and frontiers and acknowledges the legacy of the British Empire in sketching so many of them - but also state boundaries in the US and the border with the 51st state - Canada!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocPpKN6plw0
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