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What September 11 Revealed
People run away as the North Tower of World Trade Center collapses after a hijacked airliner hit the building September 11, 2001, in New York City. (Jose Jimenez via Getty Images)
A writer looks back at a portent of the future.
By Jonathan Rosen
09.11.24 — Culture and Ideas
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Twenty-three years ago, not long after the murder of nearly 3,000 innocent Americans on September 11, The New York Times Magazine asked me if I would write about antisemitism. They had noticed the explosion of Jew hatred that seemed to have ridden in on the contrails of the airplanes that jihadists had turned into weapons of mass destruction and aimed a…

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Jonathan Rosen
Jonathan Rosen is a consulting editor for The Free Press. He is the author of several books, most recently the 2023 Pulitzer Prize-finalist memoir The Best Minds.
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