The Billion-dollar Gravestone

This is a compelling essay by Tom Engelhardt on the stalled Freedom Tower project in NYC, which is meant to be built on the old WTC site.

In reality, though, Engelhardt's main topic of discussion is how 9/11 is remembered, both visibly and culturally.

As ever, the reconstruction of the WTC site and the American meta-narrative is aimed at painting this nation as, essentially, the world's Most Important Victims. And in that process, Engelhardt argues, we entrench the very policies and arrogance that only means more carnage, blowback, and atrocity will come, for great numbers of people both in the US and abroad.