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16 Nov 2014, 1:43 pm by Betsy McKenzie
As George Orwell wrote in Animal Farm, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 9:55 am by Tom Smith
Finally, I sentence the authors to a mandatory reading of George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 8:31 am by V. John Ella
From the nation that gave us George Orwell, the point is well made. [read post]
1 Nov 2014, 4:38 am by SHG
  This is the lexicon of Humpty Dumpty, if not George Orwell. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 7:52 pm by tom.hurray@law.csuohio.edu
Last month, Justice Sotomayor, spoke before a group of faculty members and students at Oklahoma City University, giving a nod to George Orwell’s book, “1984″, when she stated, “We are in that brave new world, and we are capable of being in that Orwellian world, too”. [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 4:20 am by SHG
In George Orwell’s experience, when you see another person as “visibly a fellow-creature, similar to yourself, [then] you don’t feel like shooting at him. [read post]
10 Oct 2014, 1:34 am by Cheng-yi Liu
For the texting illiterate, that’s text-speak (somewhat similar to Newspeak from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four) for “Are you ready for text to 911? [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 11:35 am by Jeremy Malcolm
We've read about it in George Orwell's 1984, we've heard about it being practised by oppressive regimes such as North Korea, and now we're witnessing it first-hand, in our own supposed liberal democracies including the United States, the United Kingdom and now Australia. [read post]
16 Sep 2014, 5:24 am by SHG
One curiosity stemming from Eugene’s post is his reply to a commenter referring to “newspeak” from George Orwell’s 1984, suggesting that we are on the road to narrowing the range of thought by limiting the range of language necessary to express disfavored concepts. [read post]
13 Sep 2014, 6:00 am by David Kravets
Berkeley Unified School District Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says that without proper privacy safeguards, the advancement of technology could lead to a world like the one portrayed in "1984" by George Orwell. [read post]
7 Sep 2014, 2:03 pm by Rechtsanwalt & Strafverteidiger
Aber wie bei George Orwells „1984“ funktioniert die Überwachung nur einseitig: Der Staat entscheidet, ob etwas aufgenommen wird und wer es zu sehen bekommt. [read post]
5 Sep 2014, 7:27 am by Jane Chong
And now for something completely different: Cyborgs. [read post]
29 Aug 2014, 5:12 am by Dave Maass
As we explain at ProjectSecretIdentity.org: From George Orwell's Big Brother to J.K. [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 6:00 pm by Gerry W. Beyer
George Orwell’s literary executor is accusing Amazon.com of doublespeak. [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 4:22 am by Terry Hart
Except that you don’t see Home Depot setting up websites that selectively quote George Orwell to make their point. [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 5:24 pm by Betsy McKenzie
Unfortunately for Amazon, they did a sloppy job of research, and quote George Orwell, of all people, trying to implicate him as one of those opposed to paperbacks, and trying to show that he was promoting collusion of the publishers to suppress publication of paperback books. [read post]
5 Aug 2014, 6:50 am
"The idea that Israel should do so did not originate among the masses but among the educated intelligentsia," writes Thomas Sowell in a column that cries out for the old George Orwell quotation: "Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. [read post]