Most days we write this column from home. The usual exception is Tuesday, on which we try to make it into the office for a weekly editorial meeting. Sept. 4, 2001--a year ago tomorrow--was the last time we filed a column from The Wall Street Journal's headquarters at the World Financial Center in downtown Manhattan.
The following Tuesday we ended up having to work at home.
Today we are back at the WFC. Our new office in our old building looks down on a 16-acre pit several stories deep. During our first stint in this place--from May 1996 to September 2001--we would occasionally look over at the World Trade Center and try to imagine what it was like when a bomb went off there in February 1993. Now we look at the enormous hole in the ground and try to remember what it was like a year ago, when two homely yet majestic buildings still stood on the site.
Then, to put things in perspective, we look at a map of the Muslim world and imagine what it will be like when the dictators are gone and the countries they now rule have joined the civilized world. If this strikes you as fancifully optimistic, look at a map of Germany, Italy, Japan or even Russia and remember what those countries used to be like.
Most of the stories the blogosphere covered last week, but BotW will hit its stride again soon.
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