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The 9/11 haze

Anke Geertsma (Groningen): Redefining Trauma Post 9/11: Freud’s Talking Cure and Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. A review of Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the “War on Terror” by Jeff Birkenstein. Joseph Nye on ten years after the mouse roared. Who killed the War on Terror? The government's most controversial post-9/11 policies died years before Osama Bin Laden did — and for good reason. Mary Dudziak on how 9/11 made “History”. You can’t handle the truthiness: Robert Blaskiewicz on a night out with the 9/11 Truth Community. The survivor who saw the future: Howard Lutnick, one of the few at Cantor Fitzgerald to survive the Sept. 11 attacks, has rebuilt his company, and then some. Do ideas matter? Paul Berman investigates, from September 11 to the Arab Spring. Hal Foster on the 9/11 Museum. Edward Cline remembers 9/11 and what might have been. The US detention system since 9/11: Emily Berman and Jonathan Hafetz discuss the President’s detention policy, the Bagram prison in Afghanistan, and the future of habeas corpus. Why is the Middle East still in thrall to 9/11 conspiracy theories? A decade ago, critics predicted that September 11th would change how America thinks and feels — that it remains as restless as ever. Solidarity Squandered: The attacks brought us together until we let them turn us against each other — and damn near everyone else. David Friend on the photographic history of 9/11 in a selection from his book Watching the World Change. From Slate, a series on 9/11 conspiracy theories: Where were you when you heard your first one? Raymond Haberski on Susan Sontag and the 9/11 haze. Visitors are expected to flock to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum when it opens, even as memories of that day fade away. What if the United States' response to the Sept. 11 attacks was a politics of forgiveness and peace? AJ Aronstein on comedy after 9/11: Sincerity and irony.