Making Sense of Today's World

A panel discussion on “Making Sense of Today’s World” was held in celebration of the opening of this new Borders store, which replaces the World Trade Center Borders that was destroyed during the September 11 terrorist attack.

Panelists were Steven Brill, author of After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era, from Simon and Schuster; Zachary Karabell, author of Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal, from Knopf; George Crile, author of Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History, from Atlantic Monthly Press; Joseph Braude, author of The New Iraq: Rebuilding the Country for Its People, the Middle East, and the World, from Basic Books; and Warren Bass, author of Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the U.S. Israel Alliance, from Oxford University Press. The moderator was Arthur Kent, contributing editor for Maclean’s and host of the History Channel. After their discussion the panelists responded to questions from members of the audience. close