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Le opinioni dei francesi, dieci anni dopo

L'America si è davvero rialzata? L'interrogativo che appare sulla prima pagina di Le Monde sintetizza lo spirito con cui si discute sui giornali francesi il decennale dell'11 settembre; in uno dei paesi occidentali che meno ha approvato e…

Facing terror: fear in the aftermath of 9/11

On June 11, 2001, exactly three months before 9/11, Americans sat comfortably on their couches as they were transported via their television screens to Terre Haute, Indiana. That was the setting for the execution of the country's top…

9/11: The bonfire of false certainties

The nineteenth century French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville was writing about “l’ancien regime” less than a lifetime after the 1789 French Revolution. The French people, Tocqueville wrote, had cut their destiny in two and were…