Jasper Craven: Journalist and Author of “The Thin Purple Line”

Today I’m talking with Jasper Craven about his Harper's Magazine piece "The Thin Purple Line" on the private security industry and the attendant fear economy that it fuels. On this episode we talk about the changing cultural symbolism of “chaos” and what particular iteration of it is driving people's fears and actions today.  Also it has officially been a year of the Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock podcast! The conversations that I have gotten to do for this podcast have opened up the world to me in so many interesting and expansive ways and I hope they have for you too.  In light of the anniversary I am starting a Patreon so that you guys can support my work and in the future I’m going to set up exclusive content, gifts, perks, and more. The project is currently a labor of love filled with reading, research, pitching, interview preparation, recording, audio editing, producing, and marketing. Your contribution will go towards supporting this project and moving it from a labor of love to a paid endeavor that will help me have more time to get more episodes to you. Thank you so much for listening and taking the time to engage with my project, I love you all!  Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock Patreon "The Thin Purple LineThe dubious rise of the private-security industry" by Jasper Craven Jasper's Twitter