Symposium: Ten Years Later

Symposium: Ten Years Later

Ten Years Later

This Sunday marks the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks of 2001. The editors of Dissent have asked some of our contributors for their reflections on what has changed in the ensuing years. Their responses are below.

Mitchell Cohen – What Should the Left Have Learned?

Michael Kazin – The Right Since 9/11

Sarah Leonard – Self-Surveillance and Social Media

Nicolaus Mills – The 9/11 Photo that Changed America

Feisal G. Mohamed – Elegy, Memorial, and Mourning

James B. Rule – Bringing out the Worst

Nick Serpe – The War at Home

Greg Smithsimon – A City of Comrades

Bhaskar Sunkara – The History of Possibility

Image: ccho, 2009, Flickr creative commons


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