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Bench Ansfield in The New York Review of Books

Read "A Theater of State Panic" by Bench Ansfield.

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    Postdoctoral fellow Bench Ansfield's piece "A Theater of State Panic" was published in The New York Review of Books on September 16, 2022.

Bench Ansfield, postdoctoral fellow in history in the Society of Fellows, was published in The New York Review of Books on September 16, 2022. Their piece "A Theater of State Panic" examines the documentary Riotsville, USA.

They write, "Beginning in 1967, the Army built fake towns to train police and military officers in counterinsurgency. Sierra Pettengill's new documentary lays bare the fears and false promises behind them." Read their piece in The New York Review of Books.