The Jakarta Method, by Vincent Bevins

The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (2020)

Showcases the catastrophic cost of a security spiral run amok and how fear of communism led the United States to support mass murder. It is here as a discipline on my own argument. Securitization is not an abstraction with abstract costs, and the Western record of managing it is not one to feel nostalgic about.

Read it asking: the people who authorized this believed they were defending an open society. Were they right?