from nymag.com
This weeks' issue of New York Magazine asks, "What if 9/11 Never Happened?" and presents a 'counter-history' imagined by some prominent thinkers on the subject, pulled together by Time political blogger Andrew Sullivan and including sombre musings by the NYT's Thomas L. Friedman and Frank Rich, Slate's Dahlia Lithwick, Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria (author of seminal 9/11 think-piece "Why Do They Hate Us?"), One Percent Doctrine author Ron Suskind, Americaphile historian-philosophe Bernard-Henri Levy, the New Republic's Leon Wieseltier, the Rev. Al Sharpton, and more. I should add that the "more" are all men; Lithwick appears to be the only woman included in this round-up of thoughts (though to be fair it is not yet available online so I can't say for sure). The lineup is impressive — all right, fine, the "more" consists of NYC Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff, "Get Your War On" cartoonist David Rees (also of the wildly popular "My Fighting Technique is Unstoppable"), Architectural Record editor Robert Ivy, historian and author Douglas Brinkley, belief-suspender Jonathan Miller, and political consultant Hank Shinekopf — but surely there are women, too, with insightful and cogent thoughts on the matter (and I say this about New York magazine, which features the excellent and oft-meaty work of writers like Jennifer Senior and Emily Nussbaum, as well as Vanessa Grigoriadis and Meryl Gordon, plus some serious love for Meryl and Nora, which is never out of place).
All that said and off my chest, the issue looks to be another example of New York's typically thorough and thoughtful treatment, the kind for which it won a General Excellence ASME this year.
The issue will be online later tonight... with an introduction by John Heilemann.
