When the state declares war on abstractions, it is in perpetuity. Whiskey nor cocaine signed a treaty. Yet, for more than a hundred years, American politicians have declared “wars” on these abstractions with the same certainty that they declared wars on foreign nations.
Sako Garabedian
Sako Garabedian is a Philosophy student in Los Angeles. His work examines the intersection of history and political theory, with a focus on how state power grows through crisis. He is completing a research project on President Chester Alan Arthur and the paradox of corruption and reform in the Gilded Age.
