Author Shahnaz Habib next to the cover of her new book, Airplane Mode.

Author photo by Eva Garmendia

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Author photo by Eva Garmendia

Author Shahnaz Habib next to the cover of her new book, Airplane Mode.

Author photo by Eva Garmendia

Traveling is supposed to open your mind and expand your horizons — but what if it doesn’t? In her new book Airplane Mode, author Shahnaz Habib suggests that sometimes, traveling does more to enforce our ideas about the world than to upend them. Which means that people with “passport privilege” — AKA, the ability to travel freely from country to country — may end up feeling like the stars of some massive international adventure, while people whose travel is more restricted feel like perpetual interlopers.

So this week, as many people make plans to travel for the winter holidays, we’re asking: What does it mean to feel entitled to the world? And what might it look to travel differently?