America marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11
There is a particular kind of cruelty in the way a nation treats its own ghosts. On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the United States did not gather as a country, but as a collection of warring factions performing a synchronized liturgy of grief. As I watch from this distance, I see a superpower that has mistaken the adrenaline of trauma for the glue of citizenship.
By Elena Rossi ·