9/11

Features

Alternative responses

9/11: Ten years later

Aug 18, 2011 by Scott Bader-Saye

Read more reflections on the 9/11 anniversary.

From the Editors

The Norwegian response

Aug 05, 2011

Mindful of the American response to 9/11, Norwegians apparently want to avoid overreacting and seeing themselves only as victims. They don't want to adopt a bunker mentality.

American Soundings

Why do we call it 9/11?

Nov 02, 2010 by Rodney Clapp

Despite all the attention given to re­membering the al-Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001, little attention has been given to one conspicuous aspect--the event has no name.

Editor's Desk

A different witness

Oct 05, 2010 by John M. Buchanan

Following the attacks of 9/11, the congregation I serve became aware that though it has a longstanding relationship with a nearby synagogue, it has had no ongoing connection with Muslims.

Books

Muslims in the West after 9/11: Religion, Politics and Law

Jocelyne Cesari, ed.

Muslim in America

Jun 15, 2010 reviewed by Rhys H. Williams
The attacks of 9/11 and their aftermath have caused great pain to U.S. Muslims. They have experienced formal and informal discrimination and large and small forms of public humiliation.
Cover Story

After September 11

Thinking as Christians

Sep 26, 2001 by Gilbert Meilaender

In the terrible terrorist attacks of September 11, thousands of our fellow citizens were buried under the rubble. The rest of us have been buried under the rubble of words that followed. It is hard to criticize such words; all of us utter trivial platitudes in moments when events simply exceed our capacity for reflection and insight.

Features

At the mosque

‘We came here to live in peace’

Sep 26, 2001 by Trudy Bush

Next to the minaret of Milwaukee’s Islamic Society a new sign appeared after the horrific events of September 11: “Our Hearts and Prayers Are with the Victims and Their Families.” That message was emphasized at the mosque’s prayer service on September 14, the national day of remembrance for all those who have suffered as a result of September 11’s terrorist attacks

Features

Eyewitness to disaster

Language of terror

Sep 26, 2001 by Rowan Williams

For a couple of hours on September 11 I, along with a lot of other people in southern Manhattan, had to face the real possibility of sudden and violent death as buildings collapsed and the streets filled with choking dust, fumes and falling debris.

Books

Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War

Bob Drogin

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

Ron Suskind

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

Andrew J. Bacevich

Spies and lies

Nov 18, 2008 reviewed by Bruce van Voorst
“The most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.”
—Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society
Books

Falling Man

Don DeLillo

Falling Man

Mar 11, 2008 reviewed by Gordon Houser
In his 14th novel, Don DeLillo addresses universal themes through the particularity of two lives affected by the events of 9/11. The omniscient narrator flits between Keith Neudecker and his estranged wife, Lianne, as they try to come to terms with the personal and national trauma of that day.