"One of the worst national reactions... was an outbreak of premature certainty masquerading as tough-minded moral clarity."

My 9/11 Anniversary Slogan: ‘We Don’t Know’ - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "It's the false omniscience, the habit of mind that reacts to an unfathomable event by blotting out all complexity and doubt, and replacing it with utterly confident assertions about the stubbornly unknowable and unplannable future."