The Whiplash Decade

The Decade America Terrorized Itself

The next 9/11 never came. Instead, we got Sandy Hook, and Las Vegas, and Parkland…

Patrick Blanchfield
GEN
Published in
6 min readDec 10, 2019

--

Illustration: Brennon Leman

This piece is part of the The Whiplash Decade, a package on the wild ride that was the 2010s.

OnOn November 9, 2009, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on his fellow soldiers at…

--

--

Patrick Blanchfield
GEN
Writer for

Freelance on US culture, violence, politics. Associate Faculty @BklynInstitute. Visiting Scholar @NYUniversity . “Gunpower” @VersoBooks (http://bit.ly/31xePhL).