I need a name for a rising subgenre

[james_davis_nicoll]

What do you call books that are reacting to the reaction to 9/11? That is, post-9/11 I got books that argued e.g. that what America really needs to protect itself from the deadly menace of weaponized squirrel brains is a secret service not bound to answer to anyone, especially elected officials. Now I'm seeing material that suggest that perhaps oversight is useful and fanatical devotion to the pope national security above all else may have draw backs. What do I call that material?

[Let's clarify this:

After 9/11 there were a lot of books and TV shows whose premise was that America needed security more than minutia like civil rights. Now that a few years have passed, an increasing number of books are concerned about the abuses that are justified as being necessary for security. I was wondering what the second sort of book, the one that a counter-reaction to the reaction to 9/11, is called]

[And I unlocked this because it's not like I mentioned anything by name]

Comments

[summers-place.livejournal.com]

Now I'm seeing material that suggest that perhaps oversight is useful and fanatical devotion to the pope national security above all else may have draw backs. What do I call that material?

Common sense, I should think.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

And The Border fits the bill, yes? It seems thus to me.

[summers-place.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't know anything about the show, as I've never seen it. It looks interesting, though, so I may have to avail myself of that "Watch Episodes" link.

Oh, for the good old days when one could just put up a set of rabbit ears in Cleveland and pull in CBC television programming from across the lake. Sadly, that doesn't appear to work anymore. :-(

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I have to warn you: that "watch episodes" option's geo-locked to "Canadians only". Fortunately, the announcement of DVDs available through retail and web-order outlets in mid-October has just been made over at the show's Facebook page. I expect the announcement to land on the show's CBC website in short order, as well as an order page at cbcshop.ca. cbcshop.ca, I believe is NOT goe-locked.

(I thought they were still broadcasting via analog signal for the next couple of years up here, though...)

[summers-place.livejournal.com]

They're broadcasting via analog, yes, but unfortunately, the signal strength appears to have dropped or else there's just too much interference or something now, because we can't pull it in with rabbit ears. If I had a rooftop antenna hooked up, maybe it would still work, but I don't at the moment. And I'm right on the lakeshore (three blocks inland), on almost a direct line south of London.

I hate geo-locked stuff. After all, who's going to seriously go and buy a DVD of a show if they can't get a reasonable taste of it first? Smooth move, CBC.