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Reign of Terror
How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
Spencer Ackerman
2022
Penguin Books
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Book Review
Lasting Cruelties
A new book situates the War on Terror as a story of domination which traces back to the founding of the US as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.
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Lyle Jeremy Rubin
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Dissent
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March 30, 2022
Podcast
The Dig
War on Terror
Episode one of The Dig's three-part War on Terror series. This discussion covers 9/11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush.
September 10, 2021
Book Review
In the Shadow of 9/11
Two new books argue that the War on Terror changed American politics, but what if the sources of its violence were already long present in the country?
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Samuel Moyn
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The Nation
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September 7, 2021
Book Review
How the War on Terror Undermined American Democracy
Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.
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Patrick Iber
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The New Republic
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August 5, 2021
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Have We Learned Nothing?
The comparison between last weekend's Hamas attack and 9/11 is apt.
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David Klion
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n+1
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October 10, 2023
9/11 was a Test. The Books of the Last Two Decades Show How America Failed.
The books of the last two decades show how overreacting to the attacks unmade America’s values.
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Carlos Lozada
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Washington Post
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September 3, 2021
