“One measure of a revolution’s legacy is what becomes normal in its wake,” Joseph Margulies wrote in our pages on the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. “To explain the legacy of September 11 is thus partly to ask what is taken for granted in the post-9/11 world.”
This week’s reading list compiles some of our most trenchant writing on that transformation—and its enduring consequences. Read work by Noam Chomsky, Adom Getachew, Elaine Scarry, Amna Akbar, Baher Azmy, Nasser Hussain, and others on drones, Islamophobia, the war on terror, and more.
