A group of journalists gathered at the Pier House Resort in Key West, Florida, to engage with three scholars on the pressing issues that have emerged in the post-9/11 world.

Much has been written and said about the attacks of September 11 and the new era they have wrought. We want to advance the discussion by bringing together three scholars to help us better understand the historical, religious, ideological, and political forces that have brought us to this important historical moment.

Many debates have emerged around such questions as: Why did this happen? What is to be done? What are the religious motivations of the terrorists? What are the core tenets of Islam? How much freedom for dissent is there within this religious tradition? Is this conflict a "clash of civilizations"? Above all, what does the future hold? Clear thinking about what lies ahead means revisiting what has gone before, especially since so much surrounding these issues has been misunderstood or misinterpreted altogether.

Speakers

Bruce Hoffman
Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of Islamic History
Samuel P. Huntington, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor

Participants

David Bloom, NBC News
David Brooks, Weekly Standard
Peter Brown, Orlando Sentinel
Colleen Carroll, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
John Cochran, ABC News
Alan Cooperman, Washington Post
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Nina Easton
Franklin Foer, The New Republic
Jeffrey Goldberg, The New Yorker
Victor Hanson, Birmingham News
Kathleen Krog, Miami Herald
John Leo, U.S. News & World Report
Duncan Moon, National Public Radio
Dan Morgan, Washington Post
Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
Jeffrey Sheler, U.S. News & World Report
David Shribman, Boston Globe
Judith Shulevitz, The New York Times Book Review
Jay Tolson, U.S. News & World Report
Karen Tumulty, Time
Paul West, Baltimore Sun
Kenneth Woodward, Newsweek