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Understanding September 11th, A Learning Guide from the Alliance for Lifelong Learning

Heeding the Call of Our Time*, Editorial, Yale Daily News, September 17, 2001

Attacks on U.S. Challenge Postmodern True Believers*, NYTimes, Edward Rothstein, September 22, 2001

Remarks by Former President William Jefferson Clinton, Cross Campus, October 6, 2001

Free Speech and an Orthodoxy of Dissent*, Chronicle of Higher Education, Stanley Kurtz, October 26, 2001

Readings By David Brooks:
The Organization Kid Revisited, Newsweek Web, November 3, 2001
(Students at the country’s elite schools find themselves obsessed with more than their own success)
War and Man at Yale, The Weekly Standard, October 29, 2001
(The students at Yale are still Organization Kids, but now they understand that ideas matter.)

    

10.02.01 - Gary Hart
Is Security Possible When War Becomes Crime?
Road Map for National Security: Imperative for Change*
On the Record: Hart talks about America's vulnerability, Yale Daily News, October 3, 2001
Gary Hart lectures on Sept. 11 attacks, Yale Daily News, October 3, 2001

10.14.01 - A Student Discussion
Who Are We Now? Where Do We Go From Here?
Diverse students debate at panel, Yale Daily News, October 15, 2001

10.21.01 - Michael Rubin
Fighting the Taliban... and Iraq? A Report From the Front
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, The Washington Institute, Articles, Op-Eds, and Papers
America at War: An interview with Middle East analyst Michael Rubin '94, Yale Daily News, October 24, 2001

10.28.01 - Bryan Hehir
Order, War and Terror: Establishing Moral Relationships
Response to Father Hehir's remarks*, Lamin Sanneh, Professor of Missions and World Christianity, Yale Divinity School.
What Can Be Done? What Should Be Done?, America Press, October 8, 2001
Priorities in a Time of Crisis, Catholic Charities USA, October 25, 2001
Lecture focuses on morality of terrorism, Yale Daily News, October 29, 2001

11.04.01 - Donald Kagan
Reflections on the Present Crisis
Editorial: Range of professors on panel not diverse enough, Yale Daily News, September 18, 2001
Israeli historian calls for U.S. to broker peace, Yale Daily News, November 12, 2001

11.07.01 - James Fallows
America's New War and the Reshaping of the Public Interest
James Fallows archives
Journalist discusses media's role in new war, Yale Daily News, November 8, 2001

11.11.01 - Avi Shlaim
America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1991-2001
Israeli historian calls for U.S. to broker peace, Yale Daily News, November 12, 2001

11.26.01 - Ruth Wedgwood
Rethinking the Role of International Organizations
Yale Law School Faculty: Ruth Wedgwood
Yale Law School, Lecture description
Law School professors join terrorism debate, Yale Daily News, September 14, 2001
Rollback of civil rights after Sept. 11 must end, Yale Daily News, November 26, 2001
The Real War*, New York Times Editorial, By Thomas L. Friedman, November 27, 2001
International law expert favors military tribunals, Yale Daily News, November 27, 2001

12.03.01 - Fareed Zakaria
Why Do They Hate Us? America In A New World
The Politics of Rage: Why Do They Hate Us? Newsweek, October 15, 2001
Newsweek editor lectures in Battell, Yale Daily News, December 4, 2001

12.09.01 - Debate between Professors Paul Kennedy and Charles Hill
What Role should the United States Play in the World After 9/11?
An interview with Charles Hill, Yale Daily News, October 17, 2001
America at War: Paul Kennedy, Yale Daily News, October 31, 2001

01.27.02 - Strobe Talbott
Putin's Path: Russian Foreign Policy Since 9/11
Talbott, soon to depart, delivers inimitable speech, Yale Daily News, January 28, 2002

02.10.02 - John W. Wilhelm
Work, War and Democracy
Labor leader links unions, democratization, Yale Daily News, February 11, 2002

04.14.02 - Bernard Lewis
Democracy, Legitimacy and Succession in the Middle East
Islamicist Lewis gives final series lecture, Yale Daily News, April 15, 2002

    

On 9/11:
James F. Hoge, Jr., Peter G. Peterson, and Gideon Rose, eds., How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War. (New York: Public Affairs, 2001).

Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda, eds., The Age of Terror: America and the World after September 11 (New York: Basic Books, 2001).

On Islam and the Middle East:
Fouad Ajami, The Dream Palace of the Arabs (New York: Vintage Books, 1999). See also "The Sentry's Solitude," Foreign Affairs, November/December, 2001, pp. 2-16.

Bernard Lewis, Islam and the West (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). See also The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years (New York: Touchstone Books, 1997); and "The Revolt of Islam," The New Yorker, November 19, 2001, pp. 50-63.

Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).

On Terrorism:
Yonah Alexander and Michael S. Swetnam, Usama bin Laden's Al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network (New York: Transaction Publishers, 2001).

Peter Bergen, Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden (New York: Free Press, 2001).

Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).

Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William J. Broad, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001).

Paul Pillar and Michael Armacost, Terrorism and U. S. Foreign Policy (Washington: Brookings Institution, 2001).

On the Post-Cold War World:
Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the World (New York: Ballantine Books, 1996).

John Lewis Gaddis, "Living in Candlestick Park," The Atlantic, April, 1999, pp. 65-74.

Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996). See also Robert D. Kaplan's reappraisal of Huntington, "Looking the World in the Eye," The Atlantic, December, 2001, pp. 68-82.

Robert D. Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War. (New York: Random House, 2000).