DN Editor's Oversight: Ignoring the 9/11 Attacks

Haven't decided which side of the contemporary opinion wars to join? Then historian Henrik Berggren's Summer in P1 is for you.

Listening to historian and author Henrik Berggren, with his precise language and intellectual perspective on both the present and history, feels like a refreshing drizzle. He offers insights into both American and European contexts.

It's liberating to hear a summer speaker who trusts his adult audience. He dares to complicate the world with stories about peace dove Olof Palme, once a powerful agitator for nuclear weapons, and delves into Europe's fascination with the US, a mix of envy and disdain. He also discusses the battle over Ivy League universities, where the towers built against the outside world do not benefit the institutions in Trump times.

Berggren recalls the day after the 9/11 terror attacks when all major cultural editorial offices wrote about it—except Dagens Nyheter. Culture editor Berggren felt there was no reason to comment, as there wasn't enough information for a well-founded opinion.

In hindsight, it was a historian's perspective, not a journalist's, that led to regret.