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September 11, 2025

Why America Struggles to Remember September 11

As our civic health declines, so does our collective memory.

Writing in the fall of 2011, Wilfred M. McClay reflected on efforts to commemorate the September 11 attacks, and what those efforts implied about the condition of the American soul. Everything he wrote about both national memory of the attacks and about the decline of our national self-confidence alas rings even truer today:

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