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Article: The politics of fear after 9/11.(Part VI: the politics of fear after 9/11: can the past inform the future?)
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- Social Research
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- December 22, 2004
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INTRODUCTION: KENNETH PREWITT
OUR TOPIC, THE POLITICAL USES OF FEAR, HAS MANY FACETS. IT IS THE strength of this concluding panel that its participants bring these multiple facets to the surface. It is not a concluding consensus that we search for--it is a many dimensional reflection and extension of themes already encountered. And this we get. Eric Alterman draws on his role as a journalist to make a general point that being in a position to do something about your political fears is liberating, even though you often will not be able to rid the world of what it is that you fear--a proposition that works whether it is terrorism you fear or the political ...