The twenty-fifth anniversary of the massacres of September 11th, 2001, brings with it a flood of memory, and regrets. The simple reality, visible at the time and brought into ever-sharper focus across each successive year, is that the enemy in Al Qaeda achieved its major strategic objects in its attack upon the United States of...
This issue of Veritas, the quarterly publication of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, features solutions to correctly measure poverty, introduces the Texas Prosperity Promise, explores whether free college is a good idea, a farewell from our CEO Brooke Rollins, an introduction of Lieutenant Colonel Allen West and the Booker T. Washington Initiative, and recaps the 2018 Policy Orientation and Visionaries Meeting.
September 11, 2001 was not an inexplicable act of violence. The men who carried out the attacks belonged to an ideological tradition that had identified the United States and the broader West as enemies long before commercial airplanes were hijacked that morning. Twenty-five years later, the danger is that Americans remember the horror of 9/11...