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Something Odd!
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Sep 11, 2026
25 years ago
I was sitting at my desk in a small office in Ballincollig when John burst through the open doorway, "A plane has hit the World Trade Center!" My office, a few years later. The rest of the day was a blur, but someone found a TV and set it up in the next office, where...
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brennan.day
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Sep 11, 2026
A Quarter of a Century Later
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of September 11, I reflect on being five years old and watching the attacks from a green shag carpet in Winnipeg, the cultural aftershocks that still echo through media and memory, and the urgent need to not forget the cruelty and the kindness of that day and its aftermath.
personal essay
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Social Commentary
Anil Dash
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Sep 11, 2025
24 is After the Fall
It was clear fairly immediately that the political goal of the attacks on September 11th was to undermine the American empire. Sitting here less than a quarter-century later under authoritarian rule, with the rule of law in America in tatters, tanks in the streets, political violence becoming…
nyc
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Anil Dash
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Sep 11, 2024
23: What was 9/11?
It’s hard to really take in, after all these years, that most people have no memory of the day. The majority of people in the world were either not born, or not old enough to be aware of what was going on, and then many who would recall are either gone or their memories have faded. But I was in New…
nyc
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Anil Dash
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Sep 11, 2023
It's unrecognizable
I didn't think I'd keep reflecting on this day, but somehow I can't. It's been with me for most of my lifetime that I can remember, and perhaps more importantly, the world's narrative about what happened that day is completely unrecognizable to me. I suppose I have to keep reflecting on it not just…
nyc
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Anil Dash
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Sep 11, 2022
There is nothing to remember.
The only time someone remembered September 11, 2001 to me in the last year was when a stranger mentioned it as part of the reason he was trying to assault me. So it's clear that the events of that day have fully passed into myth, useful only as rhetoric in a culture war, or as justifications for…
nyc
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Anil Dash
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Sep 11, 2021
Twenty Is Myth
Every year, for twenty years now, I've written an observance of this day. Sometimes it's for myself, sometimes it's for the small cohort of folks who've checked back in with me on this day every year since then, a group which has shrunk a bit over the years. But this was the first year I thought,…
nyc
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Anil Dash
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Sep 11, 2020
Nineteen is When They Forgot
The slogan, for people who weren’t in Manhattan that day, is “Never Forget”. The people who were not here, who were never here, call it “9/11”. But the people I still check in with, the friends who trudged home covered in ash, never call it that. It’s always euphemism or elision or metonymy. “That…
nyc
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Apr 21, 2020
Not-So-Clear Channel
In a time of national crisis, an emergent broadcast radio giant, Clear Channel, banned a bunch of songs from the airwaves. Or did it?
radio
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clear channel
Anil Dash
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Mar 11, 2020
My thinking on Covid-19
(Warning: this will be upsetting; you will not want to read this if you are already stressed.) [This piece was written in late February 2020, before there was widespread social distancing in place, under the assumption that no such distancing would happen at scale. I'm keeping it here for…
culture
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Anil Dash
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Sep 11, 2019
Eighteen is History
There are kids now who are old enough to go fight in wars that were justified back when they still had their umbilical cords attached. For them, the attacks are only history; that's all they ever were. I can sort of understand it. I was born after Vietnam, after Watergate. But my whole childhood,…
nyc
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Anil Dash
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Oct 4, 2018
We’re (still) not being alarmist enough about climate change
What if we had another 9/11, and nothing happened? Living in New York City, the one fantasy sport that everybody plays is real estate; we all like to imagine what it would be like to be able to afford to buy a place. And sometime over the last year or two, I realized that, even if I won the lottery…
nyc
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Anil Dash
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Sep 11, 2018
Seventeen is (Almost) Just Another Day
For the first decade after the attacks, I basically didn’t go anywhere near that part of downtown. A business meeting would take me a few blocks away, and I’d feel that tightness in my chest, that presence, and I’d just keep moving. But this morning, I’ll walk out of the (newly-opened!) A train…
nyc
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Anil Dash
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Sep 11, 2017
Sixteen is Letting Go Again
A couple of times a week, I end up walking by the World Trade Center, either the new train station at the site, or one of the new malls that’s sprung up flanking the memorial. It’s a normal part of my day now, not a tentative and fraught moment that forces me to catch my breath. It’s just part of…
nyc
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Anil Dash
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Sep 11, 2016
Fifteen is the past
We’ve been saying “never forget” for so long that we don’t even know why we’re saying it. At JFK airport, panic over… nothing. On the other side of the country, at LAX, panic over… nothing. As it turns out, if you tell people to be afraid all the time for long enough, it will work. Meanwhile, as…
nyc
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Anil Dash
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Sep 11, 2015
Fourteen is Remembering
Last week I went and visited the memorial reflecting pools for the first time. I had been to the top of the new One World Trade Center, but had deliberately avoided ever visiting (or actually seeing in person) the space where the old towers had been. And then I went. I don’t know what I was…
nyc
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Anil Dash
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Sep 11, 2014
Thirteen is Understanding
They say the best way to see if you really understand something is to try to explain it to another person. I’ll never reallyunderstand what happened to my beloved city thirteen years ago today, of course, but I’ve had in mind that my young son is now old enough that I’ll soon have to answersome…
nyc
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Anil Dash
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Dec 10, 2013
Smarter, Albums, Pimp, Upworthy
Here's @pomeranian99 's "Smarter Than You Think", offering perspective on tech while justifying our time spent online: http://t.co/R9Fkb1wJY5 — anildash (@anildash) December 10, 2013 Here's @sfj's "best albums of 2013": http://t.co/EZDlOHPSmX ‡ I have lost sensation in my…
9/11
Anil Dash
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Sep 12, 2013
Twelve is Trying
For a dozen years, I’ve been trying to document where I am relative to where I was, but this year I’m tired. I’m finding the weaponized grievances and the commercialized grief to be increasingly trying. I thought in 2001 that some beautiful things could come out of that worst of days, and sure…
nyc
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Anil Dash
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Jun 18, 2013
Taking Flights
I read my friend Brendan Koerner’s The Skies Belong To Usstraight through; On its surface, this is a book that tells a riveting true (not inspired-by-true, buttrue) story of two young lovers and the fantastic, farcical way in which they pulled off the longest-distance hijacking of an American…
culture
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nyc
Anil Dash
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Sep 11, 2012
Eleven is What We Make
Yesterday, my son and I were coming back home to New York City, driving past the familiar skyline and its newest additions. Like a lot of toddlers, my boy’s obsessed with all kinds of vehicles, so I wasn’t surprised when he pointed at a flight that was descending towards LaGuardia and exclaimed…
nyc
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Anil Dash
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Sep 12, 2011
Ten is Love and Everything After
I took this photo on a cool spring day twenty years ago, on the day I fell in love for the first time that would last. I’d been to New York City a number of times before then, but at fifteen years old I took this photo on my first trip to the city without my parents. Surrounded by my high school…
nyc
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Ben Werdmuller
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Sep 11, 2011
September 11th, 2011
The events that occurred ten years ago were undeniably horrific, scary and tragic. They were also an opportunity to show how strong democratic values are; to show how powerful reason is when armed with information; to unite behind our belief in freedom of speech and freedom of knowledge. I was working at Daily Information, writing some new features for their web platform. It was a little past two in the afternoon, and I was sitting with one of the high school students who occasionally did work
General
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Politics
Anil Dash
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Sep 11, 2010
Nine is New New York
This year, as every year, I pause for a personal ritual of observing where I am today compared to where I was, and where we all were, on this day in 2001. I’m a New Yorker, who lived in the city for years before the attacks, but never quite identified as a New Yorker until after that day. And it…
nyc
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