Dear Reader,

Twenty-five years ago, Lower Manhattan’s Twin Towers were struck from the sky and burned down. We who watched, mostly on our TVs, were indeed, as the terrorists had intended, terrified. Sudden mass death literally out of the blue shocked us speechless—maybe even secretly shamed us—into an intense if still-wordless feeling of inescapable fragility.

We’d never thought of the skyscrapers as fragile, but those monuments of our market empire, by their stunning collapse, proved themselves so.

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