9/11, 25 Years On

This month marks a quarter-century since the attacks of September 11, 2001. This program was very much born in the wake of that transformative event (and its overheated rhetoric): one of John and Ken’s early demos explored the nature of what we call terrorism, and the first regularly-scheduled broadcast in January 2004 questioned the assumptions underlying American military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many episodes over the next decade examined issues related to the post-9/11 world, so for this month’s playlist we’ve gathered some of those most directly inspired by the cataclysms of the early 21st century.