In my new Civitas Essay, I discussed how our present legal order stems from the events of 9/11.
Here, I will spin out a counterfactual: what would the legal order in 2026 look like if the terrorist attacks of 2001 had never happened? This compressed thought experiment will elucidate to the modern generation how significant 9/11 was to the very issues that define the Supreme Court today.
Counterfactuals are just that–--contrary to fact. Take everything I write here with two towers of salt.
