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[…] Saturday (or shortly before it), I’ll post a revised version of my annual “Lessons of 9/11” post. I probably need to add something to it about post-bellum […] LikeLike

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[…] This piece, “You’ve Got Mail: Teaching Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to the Americans‘,” (Reason Papers, Winter 2017), in effect reports on my attempts to put the preceding “pedagogical proposal” in…

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This Saturday marks the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. To that end, I thought I’d haul out some of the more edifying things I’ve written over the years about, or of relevance to, 9/11. In doing this, I’m to some extent plagiarizing at least the form of Chris Sciabarra’s most recent blog post at his blog,…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. And if he brings any of that gunplay to the blog, well, now we have a physician on call. And I can do the billing. And the clean up! LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. As long as he hung his head and cried after the fact. That makes it all OK. All things considered, I think Carson’ll fit in around here. The shooting just humanizes him. I mean, everyone needs a hobby. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. You should be aware that Kevin shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. LikeLike