What to do with the site in lower Manhattan where the World Trade Center stood?

National Review, July 18, 2005

What to do with the site in lower Manhattan where the World Trade Center stood? Current plans are for a memorial complex including an art gallery and an International Freedom Center. The gallery--it is called the Drawing Center--already exists nearby, and is to be relocated. Its current website boasts that its exhibitions "encourage viewers to reconsider the boundaries of art." Uh-oh.

The International Freedom Center is only in the planning stage, but has already fallen into the hands of leftists like Tom Bernstein and Michael Posner, leading lights of Human Rights First, a group funded by George Soros. ACLU head Anthony Romero also has a key role. With folk like these in charge, it is a fair assumption that the main point about freedom taught at the center will be that rich white Christian male heterosexuals strive to deny it to the rest of humanity. Will this not insult the memory of the lives lost in the 9/11 attacks? Not to worry. As a New York Times editorial explains, "What those lives stand for now is American freedom, in its full implication and all its contradictions." Ah, those contradictions! You can be sure we'll be hearing plenty about those in the International Freedom Center.