The New Yorker Radio Hour

Remembering September 11th, and the Future of the Taliban

09.10.2021 - By WNYC Studios and The New YorkerPlay

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Twenty years after the events of September 11th, the writer Edwidge Danticat reads from her essay “Flight,” about the way that tragedies are memorialized by those who survive them. And the New Yorker contributor Anand Gopal reports from Afghanistan, where, he says, the younger rank and file of the Taliban are hardly aware of the way that the 9/11 attacks have shaped the last two decades.

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