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15 Aug 2023, 7:55 am by Nazifa Haqpal
Their morality police, which they call the “Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice,” like the thought police of author George Orwell’s “1984,” intrude on people’s privacy with the aim of controlling every aspect of their lives. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 4:00 pm by Steve Bainbridge
Some years later, however, I encountered George Orwell’s essay Why I Write, and discovered that it was possible to be very intentional about the process. [read post]
1 Aug 2023, 8:00 am by Mary Chastain
"In George Orwell’s 1984 in order to prevent people from rebelling, the Party has figured out that they must get rid of truthful history to make the present appear better than the past. [read post]
31 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
They also do so to gain, consolidate, or exercise power.In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, protagonist Winston Smith grimly reflects on the Party slogan: “Who controls the past controls the future. [read post]
13 Jul 2023, 3:43 am by SHG
The 155-page opinion, which could hinder the government’s efforts to counter false and misleading online speech about issues like election interference and vaccine safety, is laced with lofty references to George Orwell and quotations from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, making it more reminiscent of a civics essay than a federal judicial opinion. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 5:17 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
At the workshop in Los Angeles, he opened his talk with a line adapted from “You and the Atom Bomb,” a 1945 essay by George Orwell. [read post]
In this, Taibbi sees echoes of the speech controls that George Orwell portrayed in his book 1984, where all words are converted to serve a model of binary thought, merely by adding “un” to the primary word. [read post]
In George Orwell’s 1984, the main character, Winston, is tortured by O’Brien in the Ministry of Truth. [read post]
9 May 2023, 4:00 am by Ian Mackenzie
…” George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” “The words we use shape our mindsets, which in turn affect how we think and behave. [read post]
8 Apr 2023, 3:30 am by Rechtsanwalt Martin Steiger
Mit Blick auf das neue Identifikationssystem scheint der Bundesrat jedenfalls zu versuchen, den Begriff «Gesichtsbildabgleich» anstelle von «Gesichtserkennung» zu etablieren.Die Wortschöpfung erinnert an die Bezeichnung «Government Software», kurz «GovWare», für Bundestrojaner und andere staatliche Schadsoftware und weckt Erinnerungen an Neusprech in «1984» von George Orwell: «Neusprech… [read post]
25 Mar 2023, 5:48 am by Stephanie R. Williams
This semester, I am lucky enough to be teaching a seminar I designed on bias in legal analysis and writing. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 11:16 am by Cory Doctorow
” -George Orwell, Animal Farm The Internet Copyright Wars are in their third decade, and despite the billions of dollars and trillions of phosphors spilled on its battlegrounds around the world, precious little progress has been made. [read post]
17 Jan 2023, 7:22 am by Editor Charlie
” From 1984 by George Orwell In the dystopian world of George Orwell’s 1984, there is a machine called a “versificator. [read post]
15 Jan 2023, 3:05 pm by Christine Corcos
RAKOFF Letter of Miriam Redleaf (nee Anastaplo) about her father, George AnastaploMIRIAM REDLEAF Professor George Anastaplo: A RemembranceANDREW MAJESKE   LAW AND LITERATURE IN TEXT AND CONTEXT Defenders of Racial JusticeThe Law and Literature Partnership of Albion W. [read post]
15 Jan 2023, 3:05 pm
RAKOFF Letter of Miriam Redleaf (nee Anastaplo) about her father, George AnastaploMIRIAM REDLEAF Professor George Anastaplo: A RemembranceANDREW MAJESKE   LAW AND LITERATURE IN TEXT AND CONTEXT Defenders of Racial JusticeThe Law and Literature Partnership of Albion W. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 6:00 am by Terry Hart
” For publishing this book, and for publishing George Orwell at all, Donald Brace deserves to be thanked and honored. [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 12:09 pm by Stuart N. Brotman
  And for more than a century, those who used it to express their opinions have included Karl Marx and George Orwell. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 12:38 pm by Stuart N. Brotman
’” And with a literary flourish, he noted George Orwell’s doomsday novel “1984” as a close analogy of this law’s potential consequences. [read post]