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Before and After: Reflections on the 9/11 Memorial and Museum

Jun 15, 2014
The events of Sept. 11, 2001, form a pivot point in our history and collective imagination, separating what we recall, however naively, as the relative quiet of the late 20th century from the endless war on terror that still grips and shapes the 21st. The events of Sept. 11, 2001, separate what we recall as the relative quiet of the late 20th century from the endless war on terror that still grips and shapes the 21st.

On Revenge and Jubilation

May 6, 2011
President Barack Obama's gesture of closure at Ground Zero on Thursday was a formal and serious show of mourning -- quite a contrast from the gleeful outbursts and street parties around the country earlier in the week.