It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one nature wrote and the same reads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson "American Scholar Address", 1837
The purpose of this site is to help acquaint you less with the events of 9-11 than with the broader cultural and historical background of terrorism. Thus this site focuses less on recent developments -- the latest actions in Afghanistan or the investigations of the anthrax outbreak -- than on analyses of the roots of those events which have had such a transformative effect on all of our lives.