Sublime

Daniel J. Solove, a law professor who writes about privacy and surveillance, argues that the novel presciently captures the dilemma of the modern subject of information technologies. Concerns about data collection and predictive analytics, he argues, have focused too much on Orwellian fears—the notion that the state is surveilling our most private

Some writers like John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and William

The Uilsa story reveals his strong, almost violent emotional side and his ability to tap the Dionysian spirit; the ethics essay reflects his lifelong interest not in epistemology but in ethics. Already his question is not “What can I know?” but “How should I live?”10

Mill held that truth emerges from an unfettered competition of ideas and that individual character is most improved when allowed to find its own way uncoerced. That vision was insufficient for 20th-century American liberalism.

William Gass’s novel Omensetter’s Luck.