Looking back at 9/11: Twenty-five years later

Twenty-Five Years After 9/11

National Association of Scholars (NAS) President Peter Wood appears on Night Class, a podcast hosted by my colleagues Scott Turner and Ian Oxnevad, to reflect on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks and what America has—and has not—learned from them. As for national security, Wood says the country is “in a worse […]

Anthoula Katsimatides on 9/11: Loss, Memories and the Choice to Live Every Day as if It Were the Last

For the relatives of the victims of September 11, 2001 time is measured not only in the years that have passed, but also in the moments they have lived without the people they lost. Twenty-five years later, the loss is ever-present, sometimes through a memory and sometimes through a ‘what if’  that never stops coming...

Looking back at 9/11: Twenty-five years later

Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, marks the 25th anniversary of a day that saw international conflicts hit the shores of America in a bold and spectacular way. On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda launched a series of coordinated attacks on the U.S.…

Lest we forget: 9/11 at twenty-five, the day hell opened.

Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. It’s been twenty-five years, a quarter century, since Muslim terrorists crashed airliners into the World Trade […]

The lasting impact of september 11 twenty-four years later

Twenty-four years after the 9/11 attacks, this reflective piece recounts the author’s experience covering the first anniversary in Manhattan, highlighting the mixture of anxiety, survivor’s guilt, and the national wave of kindness alongside the enduring pain and heroism witnessed.

The Danger of Preparing for the Last Surprise

Twenty-five years after 9/11, the lessons of one catastrophe should not define how we see the next.