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Daniel Silliman Jun 11, 2010

Abutting the Unknown

When things we thought were permanent start to slip away, we have to decide whether we’re willing to again be as helpless as babies.

Daniel Silliman Aug 1, 2005 The best of Comment

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The Failure of the New York Intellectuals

The failure of the New York Intellectuals, finally—after a life in the American public as critics and theorists, pundits and intellectuals—was the failure to pass on a tradition. They became but a historical quirk when they failed to bequeath the tradition onto another generation and another age.

Daniel Silliman May 1, 2004

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Cyberpunk, Orwellian Fears, and the Faces of Tyranny

The Cold War ended, and, since its collapse, a generation came of age unlearned in duck and cover drills, unafraid of Red Menaces, and unfamiliar with nuclear wasteland nightmares. A generation was born that wouldn’t look into a future of George Orwell’s 1984, as the book and the date became things of the past.