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Daniel Boscov-Ellen

Daniel Boscov-Ellen
Visiting Instructor of Social Science & Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute, Ph.D. Candidate at the New School for Social Research
www.pratt.edu/faculty_and_staff/bio/?id=dboscove
Theory & Practice

Ecology, Security, and the Death of Liberal Democracy

December 28, 2015 • by Daniel Boscov-Ellen

In a recent episode of the FX series Fargo, Minnesota Sheriff Lou Solverson answers a key witness’s refusal to accept police protection from a local crime syndicate by recounting his experience in Vietnam: “There’s a look a boy gets when he’s been shot, or a landmine takes off ...

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