By Patrick J. Buchanan – October 19, 2001

In September, 1929, “the Roaring Twenties,” “the Era of Wonderful Nonsense,” of sex, booze, and jazz, ended with the stock market crash that began the Great Depression. There followed the “low dishonest decade” of poet W.H. Auden’s depiction, as Western statesmen sought to appease their way to security and peace.

On September 11, 2001, as the two 767s smashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, bringing them crashing to earth with 5000 dead Americans, another unserious era, of sex scandals and stock market silliness, came to an end.