America never recovered from 9/11

In the days and months after Sept. 11, 2001, there was a maxim -- at first serious, then darkly comic -- that if you didn't go on living your life (i.e. working, eating, loving, shopping), the terrorists had won. The idea is laudable -- terrorism only works if the targeted population is terrorized -- and al Qaeda did not win. But America lost something just the same. Some wounds take time to fully heal. This one still hasn't. After 15 years, America seems to have moved on in many ways. There is ...