The Edge of the Map

Editor’s Note: Nick Danforth’s journey as author of this column is drawing to a close. Keep an eye out for his forthcoming book, tentatively titled Fifty Maps That Don’t Explain the World! Meanwhile, we will continue our cartographic explorations, with more on maps coming soon from War on the Rocks.  We’ve finally come to the edge of the map, and I, for one, am stumbling off it. Mid-Afternoon Map will continue to appear in some form — perhaps under AI authorship — but this will be the last installment I write. As tragedies we’ve covered go, this hardly compares with the disappearance The post The Edge of the Map appeared first on War on the Rocks.

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The Edge of the Map

Editor’s Note: Nick Danforth’s journey as author of this column is drawing to a close. Keep an eye out for his forthcoming book, tentatively titled Fifty Maps That Don’t Explain the World! Meanwhile, we will continue our cartographic explorations, with more on maps coming soon from War on the Rocks.  We’ve finally come to the edge of the map, and I, for one, am stumbling off it. Mid-Afternoon Map will continue to appear in some form — perhaps under AI authorship — but this will be the last installment I write. As tragedies we’ve covered go, this hardly compares with the disappearance

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