The State Is In Danger

Some Of Those Drawn Into The Holy War Had Been Secular Nationalists Only A Few Years Before. If One Looks At The Biographies Of These People, Remarkable Continuities Are Revealed.

The State Is In Danger Of Falling Into Disrepute Due To The Evidence Of Its Inadequate Resources.

The Usage Of The Words "public" And "public Sphere" Betrays A Multiplicity Of Concurrent Meanings. Their Origins Go Back To Various Historical Phases And, When Applied Synchronically To The Conditions Of A Bourgeois Society That Is Industrially Advanced And Constituted As A Social-welfare State, They Fuse Into A Clouded Amalgam. Yet The Very Conditions That Make The Inherited Language Seem Inappropriate Appear To Require These Words, However Confused Their Employment.

If The September 11 Terror Attack Is Supposed To Constitute A Caesura In World History, It Must Be Able To Stand Comparison To Other Events Of World Historical Impact.

Global Terrorism Is Extreme Both In Its Lack Of Realistic Goals And In Its Cynical Exploitation Of The Vulnerability Of Complex Systems.