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29 Mar 2022, 12:17 pm
” So explains Big Brother’s agent, O’Brien, to Winston in the midst of his torturing of Winston at the Ministry of Love, in George Orwell’s 1984. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 11:16 am
George Orwell described the loss of religious belief as the amputation of the soul and suggested that the operation, while necessary, had turned out to be more than a simple surgical job. [read post]
4 Mar 2022, 9:58 am
George Orwell, who had probably aspired to recruit Dickens to the socialist cause, reluctantly concluded that Dickens was not interested in political reform, only in moral improvement: 'Useless to change institutions without a change of heart—that, essentially, is what he is always saying.' In fact, a major target of Dickens’s satire is liberalism.... [read post]
27 Feb 2022, 8:58 pm
The foreign secretary Liz Truss has said she “won’t oppose” British nationals who travel to Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion after President Zelensky announced the formation of a dedicated International Legion and urged foreigners to come and take up arms against Moscow.The new unit is reminiscent of the International Brigades set up by left-wingers in the Spanish Civil War, drawing thousands of foreign volunteers including literary greats from George Orwell… [read post]
8 Feb 2022, 4:22 pm
. 'A man … with no means of filling up time,” George Orwell wrote, is “as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain.'"Andrew Yang takes up the cause of men in "The data are clear: The boys are not all right" (WaPo).Let me single out the line "Strong, healthy, fulfilled men are more likely to treat women well. [read post]
2 Feb 2022, 6:46 am
As much as the world would like the Olympics to be devoid of politics, as George Orwell once wrote, sport “is war minus the shooting. [read post]
27 Jan 2022, 7:19 am
" The George Orwell essay is "England, Your England" (1941): When you come back to England from any foreign country, you have immediately the sensation of breathing a different air. [read post]
23 Jan 2022, 3:27 pm
Daily Mail (UK) (Chris Hastings) reports: [S]taff at the University of Northampton have issued a trigger warning for George Orwell's novel on the grounds that it contains 'explicit material' which some students may find 'offensive and upsetting'. [read post]
13 Dec 2021, 1:55 pm
But the criminally accused have rights, and in any case, women can be malevolent.ADDED: I like the Times's summary of Orwell's issue, government's effort "to prevent citizens from thinking rationally and from challenging the state. [read post]
18 Nov 2021, 11:52 am
Indeed, as George Orwell once said: he who controls the past controls the future. [read post]
17 Nov 2021, 9:25 am
Astute observers of political systems, on both the left (George Orwell) and the right (Eric Voegelin) have long recognized that ideologies destroy language, including speech acts and performative utterances. [read post]
30 Sep 2021, 8:37 am
What it brings to mind is George Orwell's essay “Politics and the English Language,” in which he talks about how words and the meaning of words fall in the service of political programs. [read post]
28 Sep 2021, 5:47 am
This is brilliantly depicted by George Orwell’s classic novel “Animal Farm”. [read post]
25 Sep 2021, 9:52 am
While most college students won’t be subject to federal criminal charges for plagiarizing their English Lit 101 paper on George Orwell, they can be subject to a number of penalties from their university. [read post]
25 Sep 2021, 8:16 am
Its name was a kind of reverse homage to the incinerator used to destroy embarrassing government files in George Orwell’s “1984. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 12:16 pm
" represents my latest attempt to channel George Orwell. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 5:00 am
And to be clear, I am fully aware that this is merely another application of the insights in George Orwell’s timeless essay, “Politics and the English Language. [read post]
28 Jul 2021, 8:11 am
Why should everyone read George Orwell’s “1984” and Carol Dweck’s “Mindset”? [read post]
11 Jul 2021, 2:16 pm
And then there was another one of Spotify’s artist and label relations debacles with Epidemic Sound–Spotify’s answer to George Orwell’s “versificator” in the Music Department that produced “countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. [read post]
7 Jul 2021, 4:05 pm
"Because England was not the creation of intellectuals, patriotism has never been an intellectual pastime. [read post]
