The Airport Is Becoming Something Else
Airports are where governments rehearse the future in public. What began with hijackings and 9/11 may now be evolving into something even broader.
Airports are where governments rehearse the future in public.
That is one of the sheep’s working theories, and the American airport has done more than its share of proving it. The rules that shape air travel are rarely presented as experiments in state power. They arrive instead as temporary necessities, practical adjustments, regrettable but unavoidable…
