The End of the End of History: The great political fights were over. Or so we thought. Suddenly, government matters again.(historical aspects of World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks)(World View)(The Fallout)(Brief Article)

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 24-SEP-01

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Historians will surely say, "This was the week that America changed." In the midst of jagged emotions of the moment--horror, rage, grief--we can all sense that the country has crossed a watershed. But we don't quite know what that means. Accustomed as we are to whipping up a froth of hysteria about trivia, we are struck silent by honest-to-goodness history.

Or History. This is surely the End of the End of History--the notion that after the cold war, ideological or political tussles were dead and life would be spent managing the economy and worrying about consumerism. In his brilliant essay, Francis Fukuyama actually considered the threat of radical Islam but pointed out correctly that, unlike communism, it has no ideological appeal beyond the borders of the Muslim world. Radical Islam as an ideology, in other words, posed no...

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