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FOR reasons best known to its editors, the Guardian in Britain has been publishing extensive excerpts from The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America, by Susan Faludi. The other morning, halfway through one of no fewer than three excerpts (plus an interview with the author) in that day’s edition, I came across this, harking back to the fall of 2001:

Fighting the gender war seemed to be a preoccupying concern, too, of Mark Steyn’s November 19 article in the National Review, in which he denounced the proponents of nanny-state big government-‘Hillary & Co’ prominent among them-for having de-balled American men in the air just as they had on the ground. The airline cabin was ‘the perfect symbol’ of ‘the modern social-democratic state’, he wrote, with a female FAA director who stripped pilots of their handguns and an oligarchy of flight attendants on every plane whose dictates had to be obeyed.

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Mark Steyn is an international bestselling author, a Top 41 recording artist, and a leading Canadian human-rights activist.

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FOR reasons best known to its editors, the Guardian in Britain has been publishing extensive excerpts from The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America, by Susan Faludi. The other morning, halfway through one of no fewer than three excerpts (plus an interview with the author) in that day’s edition, I came across this, harking back to the fall of 2001:

Fighting the gender war seemed to be a preoccupying concern, too, of Mark Steyn’s November 19 article in the National Review, in which he denounced the proponents of nanny-state big government-‘Hillary & Co’ prominent among them-for having de-balled American men in the air just as they had on the ground. The airline cabin was ‘the perfect symbol’ of ‘the modern social-democratic state’, he wrote, with a female FAA director who stripped pilots of their handguns and an oligarchy of flight attendants on every plane whose dictates had to be obeyed.