The inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless
warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are
the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the
wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us
safer in a post-9/11 world. But do they? "Against Security"
explains how these regimes of command-and-control not only annoy
and intimidate but are counterproductive. Sociologist Harvey
Molotch takes us through the sites, the gizmos, and the politics to
urge greater trust in basic citizen capacities--along with smarter
design of public spaces. In a new preface, he discusses abatement
of panic and what the NSA leaks reveal about the real holes in our
security.
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