The 9/11 Anniversary: 15 Years of Alarmism—and Counting

The 9/11 Anniversary: 15 Years of Alarmism—and Counting

Were the attacks 15 years ago—a horrific tragedy—the norm or the exception?

John Mueller is a political scientist at Ohio State and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He is the author of Overblown (2006), Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda (2010), and, with Mark Stewart, Chasing Ghosts: The Policing of Terrorism (2016).

Image: The September 11th Tribute in Light from Bayonne, New Jersey. Wikimedia Commons/Anthony Quintano