Noted scholars, theologians, and others question the U.S. government's reaction to the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center.

Introductory Note / Frank Lentricchia 3
Introductory Note / Stanley Hauerwas 7
After / Daniel Berrigan 9
Seventy-Five Years / Robert N. Bellah 11
End of War / Rowan Williams 25
Thoughts in the Presence of Fear / Wendell Berry 37
The Wars Less Known / Catherine Lutz 43
The Dialectics of Disaster / Fredric Jameson 55
Sovereignty, Empire, Capital, and Terror / John Milbank 63
A Muslim to Muslims: Reflections after September 11 / Vincent J. Cornell 83
Groundzeroland / Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe 95
Dispelling the "We" Fallacy from the Body of Christ: The Task of Catholics in a Time of War / Michael J. Baxter 107
Old Glory / Susan Willis 121
Welcome to the Desert of the Real! / Slavoj Žižek 131
September 11 and the Children of Abraham / Peter Ochs 137
L'Esprit du Terrorisme / Jean Baudrillard 149
Our Good Fortune / David James Duncan 163
John Walker Lindh / Anne R. Slifkin 173
September 11, 2001: A Pacifist Response / Stanley Hauerwas 181
Ground Zero; or, The Implosion of Church and State / Srinivas Aravamudan 195
Afterword: From Virgin Land to Ground Zero / Donald E. Pease 205
Contributors 215
Index 219