The War Society

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the ensuing War on Terror have no doubt impacted political culture in the U.S., but two recent books present very different viewpoints on how. Peter Alexander Meyers’ Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen explores the War on Terror as an extension of the Cold War, while Mahmood Mamdani’s Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror sees a new and disturbing logic of foreign policy emerging.