I’ve taken some blogspheric heat for my column in Maclean’s about the Euston Manifesto, in particular for arguing that  the big mistake of the anti-war left was to interpret the attacks of 9/11 as a natural response to globalisation. 

 No need to take my word for  it. According to the Guardian, Jean Baudrillard is appearing at at London art fair, to be interviewed by a woman who claims that he is “the most important intellectual working today.” What important  thoughts has he had about, say, terrorism? The article offers a handy recap:

Baudrillard on 9/11

The horror for the 4,000 victims of dying in those towers was inseparable from the horror of living in them - the horror of living and working in sarcophagi of concrete and steel

By the grace of terrorism, the World Trade Centre has become the world’s most beautiful building - the eighth wonder of the world

Terrorism merely … puts the finishing touches to the orgy of power, liberation, flows and calculation which the twin towers embodied … So, at Ground Zero, in the rubble of global power, we can only, despairingly, find our own image.

You can’t simulate this kind of stuff. This is as authentic as it gets.