INSIGHTFUL
Janet Street-Porter writes in her Editor-at-Large column about the eccentric inertia in the Church of England, futurists, and Libeskind's twin tower design. "The choice of Daniel Libeskind to rebuild the twin towers site is inspired. Here is an intellectual, a dreamer, an architect whose Jewish Museum in Berlin moves people to tears. Why then do I cringe at the news that it contains a spire 1,776ft tall, said to be a 'tribute' to the year of America's independence? Is this not evidence of the US's desire to be seen as the dominant culture? Skyscrapers were born in a previous age. The old US philosophy of consumerism provokes increasing hostility. I don't think Libeskind's design is the solution."

Not that I agree with her read on the situation but hers is probably a common perception of those outside the states. Link