Talk by James T. Sparrow, University of Chicago. “Boundaries of the Firm, State, and Nation: the Problem of Public Utility in the American Century.”

Sparrow is the author of Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (2011) and co-editor of Boundaries of the State in US History (2015). His current projects include Sovereign Discipline: the American Extraterritorial State in the Atomic Age and New Leviathan: Rethinking Sovereignty and Political Agency after Total War.