I've spent years writing about 9/11 now and the anniversary never ceases to feel somber. To me, the thing more than any aspect of that day that sticks out—and haunts me—is how much random luck factored into the day. How the tiny decisions, the ones we make a thousand times a day without thinking, decided that day the difference between life and death. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/september-11-blind-luck-decided-who-lived-or-died/597688/