Palimpsest

A decade after 9/11 we seem no closer to defusing the sinister power of what Waldman describes as the “bellicose, lachrymose religion the attack had birthed” and “the fundamentalists who defended it by declaring the day sacred, the place sacred, the victims sacred, the feelings of their survivors sacred”. “So much sacredness”, as the novel unflinchingly points out, that there’s “no limit to the profanity justified to preserve it.”

Awesome piece on the legacy of 9/11 and America’s imperial wars.