I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.