Memorial Chauvinism

September 8, 2005 | This article appeared in the September 26, 2005 edition of The Nation.

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The controversy over the World Trade Center cultural
institutions is one more episode in a long, often bitter dispute over
how 9/11 should be remembered and understood.

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Alisa Solomon

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