http://newyorkmetro.com/news/features/19147/index.html
John Heilemann
"An assortment of big thinkers and public figures address the question, What if 9/11 never happened? We’re well aware that the dangers of counterfactual speculation (If Bobby Kennedy had never been shot, then Nixon would never have been elected! So no Watergate! No Carter! No Reagan! Etc., etc., etc.) are almost as grave as those of unbridled futurism. But we also see the virtues of an approach that appeals both to left-brain analytics and right-brain imagination — and that, in the process, tends to uproot subterranean assumptions and challenge conventional wisdom." [19 pages]
