Israel’s Fight to Survive Needs No Defense
The only argument that matters is the one made in the skies and on the battlefield.
September 11, 2025
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:
The only argument that matters is the one made in the skies and on the battlefield.
Gaza’s ruler from afar.
As our civic health declines, so does our collective memory.
A personal reminiscence.
The amazing life of Doña Gracia Nasi.
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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