Solidarity Squandered
The September 11 attacks brought us together until we let them turn us against each other–and damn near everyone else.
Bubble Trouble
In a 2009 book about the social consequences of the Internet, The Age of the Infovore, the economist and blogger Tyler Cowen argues that new technologies enable us to decide what information to consume and, as a result, to remake ourselves. Instead of reading the same newspaper or watching the same television news, we can…
How Gun Control Got Murdered
In Gun Fight, Adam Winkler misses the point that the only way to reduce homicides is to reduce the number of handguns.
Old Frontier
Mad Men has provoked nostalgia for the 1960s — the pre-counterculture 1960s.
Letters: Messaging Matters
Guy Molyneux [“Can Obama Make the Pivot?” June 2011]argues that President Barack Obama must address the deficit and do so by contrasting more sharply Democratic and Republican priorities. In Molyneux’s telling, the public wants to cut the deficit and, moreover, believes that doing so would help the economy. This seems to afford the president no…
Solidarity Squandered
The attacks brought us together until we let them turn us against each other — and damn near everyone else.
The Global Patriot Act
From the end of World War II to the start of the “global war on terror,” international law provided crucial support for the promotion of human rights around the world. But the response to the September 11 attacks has had a profound and little-appreciated impact on international law with devastating global consequences for human rights,…
A City Divided
September 11 was good for Washington, D.C.’s economy, but the expansion has not helped many on the bottom.
Extreme Measures
Since September 11, the Fourth Amendment has been eroded in ways we do not even know. The scary part is that it’s going to take years to undo the damage.
Muslim and American
Living under the shadow of 9/11
The 9/11 President
If the attacks hadn’t occurred, it’s impossible to imagine Barack Obama would have been electedbut the legacy of those attacks continues to burden his presidency.
Solidarity Squandered
The attacks brought us together until we let them turn us against each other — and damn near everyone else.
The Remains of the Day
Ten years after the attacks on the twin towers and the Pentagon, the United States is in bad shape, but our problems have little to do with what al-Qaeda did to us. America’s troubles stem from what the country has done to itselfor rather, from what our political leaders have done with the nation’s power…
