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THE FRACTURED LANDSCAPE

Reflections on September 11, 2001,
and Its Aftermath


In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, The Chronicle asked scholars in a variety of disciplines to reflect on those events. Their comments were submitted in writing or transcribed from interviews. They appear below and in the printed edition of The Chronicle Review, which will be mailed to subscribers on Friday.


»  EDWARD T. LINENTHAL: Toward the 'New Normal'

»  AZIZAH AL-HIBRI: Can We Restore America's Historical Role?

»  BERNARD WASSERSTEIN: Anti-Semitism and Anti-Americanism

»  THOMAS E. GOUTTIERRE: An Abandoned Afghanistan

»  JOANNE B. FREEMAN: The American Republic, Past and Present

»  STANLEY HAUERWAS: A Complex God

»  TERRY L. DEIBEL: Finding a Middle Road

»  STANLEY I. KUTLER: Fanatics at Home and Abroad

»  HOWARD ZINN: Compassion, Not Vengeance

»  ROBERT JAY LIFTON: Giving Meaning to Survival

»  ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ: Preserving Civil Liberties

»  RICHARD PERLE: Needed: a Sustained Campaign

»  MARK CRISPIN MILLER: Danger in the New Solemnity

»  DAVID P. BARASH: Our Biological Nature

»  JOHN O. VOLL: Understanding Terrorism

»  R. SCOTT APPLEBY: Building Peace to Combat Religious Terror

»  RICHARD SLOTKIN: Our Myths of Choice

»  CHRISTOPHER PHELPS: Why We Shouldn't Call It War

»  HOMI BHABHA: A Narrative of Divided Civilizations

»  AMITAI ETZIONI: Balancing Rights and Public Safety

»  MICHAEL LEDEEN: Steps to a Safer World

»  LEONARD CASSUTO: The Power of Words

»  CATHERINE LUTZ: Our Legacy of War

»  PAUL LEVINSON: Images of Unmediated Ugliness

»  THOMAS S. HIBBS: What Kind of Evil?

»  DAVID STERRITT AND MIKITA BROTTMAN: Hollywood's Metaphors

»  ROBERT S. MCELVAINE: A Second Black Tuesday

»  JEANE KIRKPATRICK: The Case for Force

»  ROBERT COLES: In the Words of Children

»  R. STEPHEN HUMPHREYS: Muslims Must Look Within

»  RICHARD MOUW: A Time for Self-Examination

»  LAURIE FENDRICH: History Overcomes Stories




Teaching, reading, and writing in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks

» SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN: An Entire Semester of Knowledge in One Day

» MICHAEL BERUBE: Ignorance Is a Luxury We Cannot Afford

» CAROLE CHABRIES:Fiction in a World That Exists After Terror

» CAROLYN FOSTER SEGAL: The Solace of Literature

» WILLIAM GERMANO: The Way We Read Now




CULTURAL AFTERSHOCKS: 4 PERSPECTIVES

»  MARTHA BAYLES: Closing the Curtain on 'Perverse Modernism'

»  KARAL ANN MARLING: The Stars and Stripes, American Chameleon

»  BARRY GLASSNER: The Fate of False Fears

»  MICHAEL KIMMEL: Declarations of War


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