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18 May 2024, 4:02 am
George Orwell famously wrote that “to see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. [read post]
1 May 2024, 1:00 am
Como decía Napoleón, no el emperador, sino el cerdo de la novela “La Granja”(George Orwell):” Todos somos iguales ante la justicia, pero unos más iguales que otros”…¿o no era así? [read post]
28 Apr 2024, 1:31 pm
In George Orwell’s 1942 essay, Looking Back on the Spanish War, he wrote: “[I]n Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. [read post]
23 Apr 2024, 5:17 am
"ADDED: I've quoted this before, an unforgettable passage from George Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 11:39 am
" And sure enough, Alito led the way at the oral argument to push forward with Trump's gaslighting, saying that prosecuting violent insurrectionists will pave the way to prosecuting peaceful protesters -- just as Trump and his allies argue that the attack on Congress was "beautiful" and was just a bunch of patriots strolling through the Capitol.Politicians will always try to get away with degrading and twisting the meanings of words, as George Orwell explained… [read post]
13 Apr 2024, 9:16 am
George Orwell, 1984 Make no mistake, it’s all about the money. [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 1:41 pm
” George Orwell, Politics and the English Language Orwell was prescient again. [read post]
14 Mar 2024, 5:50 am
That war pits the idea of Kantian global governance – that the law of nations, as Immanuel Kant said, shall be founded on a federation of free States sharing democratic values – against George Orwell’s dystopian vision of global spheres of influence in 1984. [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 7:46 am
George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” is frequently invoked when political actors use language to obfuscate what they are doing. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 6:31 am
In influential masterpieces near the end of his life, George Orwell dilated on the negative role that obscurantist language and the denial of objective fact could have on the ability of societies to protect democracy and human freedom. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 6:31 am
In influential masterpieces near the end of his life, George Orwell dilated on the negative role that obscurantist language and the denial of objective fact could have on the ability of societies to protect democracy and human freedom. [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
On the contrary, it is a matter of well-documented public record.If none of this history matters, it would summon to mind George Orwell’s admonition written at the end of another war: All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. [read post]
15 Dec 2023, 3:30 am
Anna Funder’s 2023 much lauded book, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life, tells the story of how George Orwell’s literary corpus was built on the back of the contributions of his wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, and yet those contributions were consistently minimized by Orwell himself and others writing about his work. [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 3:30 am
Stucki begins with a short quote from George Orwell’s 1984: “War is peace. [read post]
11 Oct 2023, 9:16 am
In the tradition of speculative fiction from George Orwell’s 1984 to Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale to the Twilight Zone, it explores themes of autocracy, scapegoating, strategic disinformation, and more, all told through a compelling, character-driven story. [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 8:20 am
Senators Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn are continuing to beat the drum on TikTok’s connection to the Chinese Communist Party and the Ministry of State Security–because the TikTok story is straight out of the mind of George Orwell. [read post]
28 Sep 2023, 6:00 am
In the tradition of speculative fiction from George Orwell’s 1984 to Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale to the Twilight Zone, it explores themes of autocracy, scapegoating, strategic disinformation, and more, all told through a compelling, character-driven story. [read post]
18 Aug 2023, 6:29 pm
in George Orwell Studies. [read post]
18 Aug 2023, 6:29 pm
in George Orwell Studies. [read post]
17 Aug 2023, 7:10 am
As viewers, the real and imagined become entwined and truth is lost.You want to write a book that makes George Orwell look bad, sure. [read post]
