"On This Anniversary, We Should Not Forget This"

"And so, on this twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11, older people need to be reminded of—and younger readers told for perhaps the first time—how the Republican Party of that era used that tragedy to impose its worldview on a confused and malleable populace and to browbeat the political opposition (and how, tragically, said opposition largely complied in ways that resonate loudly today). Superficial reminiscences published this week will bemoan the 'fact' that we were a country united then, and look how far we've fallen. It sounds soothing. But nothing could be further from the more forensically examined truth."

Michael Tomasky at The New Republic recalls 9/11.