In this explosive episode of The Disinfo Detox, host Nolan Higdon sits down with historian and author Matthew Warshauer, whose groundbreaking analysis of post-9/11 America reveals how a national tragedy was weaponized to engineer an entire generation — and how we ultimately failed them.
Together, we unpack Warshauer’s contention that the so-called “9/11 Generation” wasn’t born organically from the trauma of that day, but was constructed through political propaganda, militarized patriotism, and state-sanctioned narratives. From high school hallways to Hollywood blockbusters, Warshauer traces how young Americans were groomed to accept endless war, mass surveillance, and a foreign policy of perpetual retaliation as normal — even heroic.
Warshauer also confronts what the corporate press still refuses to confront:
the Saudi government’s involvement in 9/11, the intelligence failures that weren’t failures at all, and the bipartisan effort to conceal the truth from the public. He explains how the U.S. government lied about what happened, why it happened, and who benefited — and how those lies redirected the nation toward Iraq, Afghanistan, and two decades of geopolitical chaos.
We examine the enduring consequences: a generation raised on fear and patriotism, deployed in conflicts without victory, and abandoned when they came home. The result is not just foreign policy failure — it is a civic, cultural, and moral failure that reshaped the fabric of American democracy.
If you value fearless historical analysis, critical media literacy, and conversations that expose how power weaponizes national trauma, this is an episode you cannot afford to miss.
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