9/11 reading recommendations

October 19, 2004 12:43 PM

What are the best middle-brow / high-brow "think-pieces" you've read on the topics of: the macropolitical consequences of 9/11; relations between the West and "the rest" after 9/11; and how "we" (whoever "we" may be) think of "ourselves" after 9/11?

2 minutes in the penalty box for excessive use of "finger quotes".

posted by stonerose to Society & Culture (6 answers total)

Joan Didion's article in the New York Review is good (still up at www.nybooks.com).
posted by josh at 1:04 PM on October 19, 2004

Robert Wright's great nine-part "A Real War on Terrorism" from Slate.
posted by blueshammer at 1:13 PM on October 19, 2004

Thomas Friedman had an NY times editorial, "Additcted to 9/11", that I think hits it on the head.
posted by szg8 at 2:17 PM on October 19, 2004

Wait, I know! -- how about Samuel Huntington's THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS!!!!!!

Ha ha, ho, j/k lol.
posted by josh at 2:17 PM on October 19, 2004

Here (presumably) is the Joan Didion link, since josh couldn't be bothered.
posted by jjg at 5:58 PM on October 19, 2004

Fareed Zakaria's work in Newsweek is consistently excellent.
posted by Vidiot at 12:10 AM on October 21, 2004