A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Thursday, April 16, 2015

THE LESSON OF 9/11/2001: WE ARE NOT COMPLEX, AND CANNOT WRAP OUR MINDS AROUND THE COMPLEX

Claudia Rankine, Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (Minneapolis, Mn: Graywolf Press, 2004) ("It strikes me what that the attack on the World Trade Center stole from us is our willingness to be complex. Or what the attack on the World trade Center revealed to us is that we were never complex. We might want to believe that we can condemn and we can love and we can condemn because we love our country, but that's too complex." Id. at 91.).