25 Years Later: The Lasting Aftermath of 9/11

KPFA - Hard Knock Radio · Sep 10, 2026 · 59m

As the nation approaches 25 years since the September 11 attacks, Hard Knock Radio host Davey D sat down with UC Berkeley professors Hatem Bazian and Michael Mark Cohen to examine a part of the story too often overlooked: what happened after 9/11. Bazian argued that the attacks gave the federal government an opening to expand policies that had been developing for decades. He connected the post-9/11 security apparatus to earlier government surveillance programs, the 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, and the passage of the Patriot Act. In his view, the War on Terror “rewired”…