Matsui Forum
9/11 Ten Years Later: How Did the Attack Change America?
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall
7:30-9 p.m.
A decade after the deadliest terrorist attack in American history, we look back to see what has changed as a result of 9/11 – and what changes might still be coming. Did 9/11 make us more assertive as a nation or more fearful? Did our response in Afghanistan and Iraq make us safer or more at risk? How did things change here in the United States? Are we more aware of the threat posed by terrorists or have we grown complacent about the danger? And what about the generation that grew up in the wake of 9/11 – today's college students? Are they different than their elders because of 9/11? Did 9/11 alter their world view in some unique way or does every generation experience a defining moment?
Panelists:
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Jean Bethke Elshtain, author of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, and Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, Divinity School, University of Chicago
Michael Nacht, professor of public policy and former dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley, and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense
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James T. Patterson, author of Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945 to 1974, and Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore, and Ford Foundation Professor of History emeritus, Brown University
Michael Krasny, host of Forum on KQED public radio, professor of English, San Francisco State University, and author of Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life, and Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest
Moderator:
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