I'll just post links to what I wrote on the occasion of the 5th anniversary: this a personal recollection of the day, this a comment on the political and public culture five years later. Ten years later, some, but hardly all, of the madness has receded. Certainly the Republican Party now--one need only look at their Presidential candidates, some of whom make even George W. Bush appear a paragon of virtue and sense--is even more deranged.
(On the post-9/11 madness, this item (regarding Michael Moore's early and quite correct objection to the criminal war of aggression against Iraq) is also very telling.)
UPDATE: A striking statement from Krugman. (He's certainly right about Giuliani's post 9/11 exploitation of the day, but one should at least acknowledge that he was effectively the "President of the United States" that day, and was the only functional political leader in evidence.)
ANOTHER: Chris Hedges, including a very interesting quotation from Elias Canetti, one of the most unusually insightful minds of the last century.
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