What Matthew Yglesias thinks about aviation

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Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.

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11 Sept 2026

Our readingThe plan to hijack airplanes and destroy the World Trade Center was an eccentric, unlikely scheme rather than a natural or inevitable one.

Their wordsI think appreciation of the contingency starts with observing that the whole idea of hijacking airplanes in order to destroy the World Trade Center is eccentric.

↗We’re still underrating 9/11’s impactslowboring.com 3rd of 3 in this piece