The Politics of Fear after 9/11

strength of this concluding panel that its participants bring these multiple facets to the surface. It is not a concluding consensus that we search for it is a many dimensional reflection and extension of themes already encountered. And this we get. Eric Alterman draws on his role as a journalist to make a general point that being in a position to do something about your political fears is liberating, even though you often will not be able to rid the world of what it is that you a proposition that works whether it is terrorism you or the political manipulation of fears about terrorism. Andrew Arato, from the vantage point of political sociology, draws attention to what he describes as the institutional fear on