Cheney watching the 9/11 attacks on television from his office in the White House. Photo: National Archives.

9/11 and the American Mind

Tongues of Fire

September 13, 2026

What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. ― T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets Around 6 Am on the morning of September 11, 2001, the phone rang here in Oregon City. It […]

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Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of CounterPunch. His most recent book is An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents (with Alexander Cockburn). He can be reached at: [email protected] or on Twitter @JeffreyStClair3.

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