In the last decade, we’ve seen increasingly militarized police departments, invasive surveillance by the NSA and highly sophisticated propaganda. Columbia law professor Bernard E. Harcourt has followed these trends, and he joins us to talk about how these tools of counterinsurgency are being used to govern Americans. He writes about the topic in “The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens” (Basic Books).
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