Revisit this historic April 18, 2002 engaging panel discussion on “Understanding America’s Terrorist Crisis” with three of America’s most brilliant men of letters: Gore Vidal, Lewis H. Lapham, and Robert Higgs. As the threat of pre-emptive war and invasion of Iraq loomed ever larger, Lewis H. Lapham, editor emeritus of Harper’s magazine, spoke in this incisive March 2003 interview.