The Year of the Wall

We live in an age of walls. In the 1990s pundits regularly celebrated the end of walls (along with the end of history), insisting that the fall of the Iron Curtain marked a new age of low borders and high interconnection. In many ways, they were right; cross-border flows of goods, people, capital and information have exploded across the last quarter-century. However, in other ways they were wrong. ...