Source: The American Conservative
by Nic Rowan

“I have always said that my life began on September 11, 2001. I was three years old at the time, and I was seated in front of the television in my parent’s basement. At this point, I think both towers had been hit. In any case, the news channel played the second plane’s impact over and over again, until my mother, horrified, turned it off. It is my first memory. The attacks that day changed the shape of American life, but only for those who remember them. For those who were too young to know what was happening—or who were not yet born—it is just history. Twenty-five years on, remembrance or nonremembrance is still one of the most useful tools for understanding generational divergence in opinion on the world 9/11 created.” (09/11/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-generation-9-11-made/

Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis

“September 11, 2001, is one of those days in American history that ‘will live in infamy’. Just like the Japanese on December 7, 1941, who thought they could strike a mortal blow against the United States by their dastardly attack on Pearl Harbor, Osama bin Laden believed he could so weaken America, with his attack on multiple sites on the East Coast, that the country might never fully recover from it. The Japanese were wrong in 1941 and found out, pretty quickly, that they were wrong. Osama bin Laden was wrong, too. Twenty-five years later, America is still the strongest nation in the world, with the most powerful military that can humble a nation using only a fraction of its power, and an economy that remains the envy of the world. Millions upon millions of people still migrate to America because America is…well, it’s America.” (09/12/26)

https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/09/12/25-years-and-america-still-stands-tall-n2682860

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter

“Foreign policy Gnosticism is fallacious and is a debating trick, whether done consciously or unconsciously. It is an assertion to avoid logic, argumentation, and evidence disguised as intellectual humility. The opponent wants you to adopt a position of intellectual humility while they enjoy an undeserved sense of certainty based on the informal fallacy of appeal to ignorance. While other evidence certainly may exist in favor of the other side, that has to be demonstrated, and—even if it is later proven to be the case—it still does not erase the fallacy. The existence of inaccessible information does not establish the content, reliability, interpretation, or implications of that information.” (09/11/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/foreign-policy-gnosticism-appeal-black-box-our-leaders-know-more

Source: Persuasion
by Jeffrey Cieslikowski

“Age-verification seems like a simple fix. And it is often driven by a genuine concern for kids’ safety and well-being. But it comes at a cost: age-verification threatens our anonymous speech online. As trendy as age-verification might be, it is worth taking a moment, in the year of America’s 250th anniversary, to remind ourselves of the deep history of anonymous speech in the United States—a speech right that can easily be underestimated or denigrated.” (09/11/26)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/think-twice-about-age-verification