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Dalton Delan

We’re all Swifties now

It’s a Taylor Swift world. The rest of us are just living in it.

4 min readMar 15, 2024

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Dalton Delan

Mind the gap — an uncomfortable but necessary meditation on the shifting cognitive capabilities of…

As Moore’s Law kicks in and we race or plunge, depending on perspective, toward artificial general intelligence, we are obsessed with…

4 min readDec 8, 2023

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Dalton Delan

The falling leaves of our autumn years

In the lobby of the Peace Hotel in Shanghai, a jazz trio plays soft and sweet in memory. They were a relic, then as now. October in the…

4 min readOct 27, 2023

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Dalton Delan

Of America and immigration, the myths are many but the truths are deep

At the kindergarten food-fight of a GOP debate last month at the Ronald Reagan Library, the consensus of the candidates was a rote…

4 min readOct 13, 2023

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Dalton Delan

New sky above, same mud below

“The Sky Above, the Mud Below.”

4 min readSep 29, 2023

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Dalton Delan

At the crossroads of Margaritaville and Howdy Doody’s last ride

“10–29 on a white Crown Vic heading Eastbound on 275, tag ‘Boy & Dog,’ repeat: ‘Boy & Dog.’

4 min readSep 15, 2023

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Dalton Delan

Our deep and finite search for connection

We emerge into the light of the world as part of a pair, destined for separation. Umbilically bound to our mother, we bear innate dualism…

4 min readSep 2, 2023

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Dalton Delan

Whoever wins first GOP debate, we all lose

Next week in Milwaukee, nearly 18,000 potential voters cram into the Fiserv Forum to hear a half-dozen GOP hopefuls duke it out onstage…

4 min readAug 18, 2023

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Dalton Delan

From media to politics, heavy hitters spoiling for a fight

Mixed martial arts cage matches of the rich and famous. Who knew it’s a thing? When 30 million Instagram users signed up on day one for…

4 min readAug 4, 2023

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Dalton Delan

In hype nation, everyone goes fast and breaks things

We live in hype nation. The nation of the now. There have always been headlines. There has always been advertising. But there were core…

4 min readJul 21, 2023

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Dalton Delan

Dalton Delan

Winner of three Emmy Awards, Dalton Delan pens biweekly The Unspin Room, which began August 7, 2016 in The Berkshire Eagle; it has appeared in 50+ newspapers.

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