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3 Jul 2012, 9:24 am by Jay Stanley
Invoking George Orwell, President Clinton himself acknowledged that “any kind of identification card like that sort of smacks of Big Brotherism. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 7:45 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) (Centennial ed. 2003). [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 5:22 am
In 1945 in Animal Farm, George Orwell told us, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. [read post]
30 Jun 2012, 9:07 pm by Steven Ballard
  Each principal party candidate has now proven by his actions - despite what he may have said, or may now say, to get elected - that he is steadfastly in support of unnecessary and immoral wars, that he is shamelessly in favor of lavish corporate welfare and bailouts to the rich elite who regularly and legally steal from the rest of us, and that he will obsequiously kowtow to Wall Street and big corporations and continuously pretend to serve the public interest without actually doing so.In… [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 5:07 am by Jamison Koehler
Described by the dissent as “creative law-making,” Scalia’s argument sounds like something straight out of George Orwell’s 1984. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 10:50 am
George Orwell instructed: "Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. [read post]
11 Jun 2012, 2:17 pm by Kevin
" George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 13 Horizon 76 (1946). [read post]
10 Jun 2012, 10:17 pm by Leland E. Beck
George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 13 Horizon 76 (1946). [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 4:44 pm by tekEditor
By the time I was twelve, I had already read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, along with George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 2:56 pm by Betsy McKenzie
Albert recalls the classic story of the day Amazon panicked that they had not gotten proper copyright clearance for George Orwell's 1984, and yanked it from all e-readers without notice. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 10:33 am by Paul Caron
The Faculty Lounge: Taxation and Orwell's Animal Farm, by Calvin Massey (New Hampshire): Indianapolis constructed sanitary sewers for a neighborhood and financed the project by a tax assessment of some $9,300 on each benefited parcel. [read post]
2 Jun 2012, 6:58 pm by Glenn Reynolds
What we didn’t expect was something reminiscent of George Orwell’s novel 1984 — that the Harvard Law School administration would respond by censoring our speech, and acting to erase it from the historical record. [read post]
31 May 2012, 8:57 am by Adam Thierer
In particular, again and again and again in the book he comes back to George Orwell and his dystopian novel, 1984. [read post]
30 May 2012, 8:02 am by Charon QC
Conflict of Laws. net is a remarkable resource edited by Martin George and others. [read post]
24 May 2012, 2:54 pm
HuffPo: FBI Web Surveillance: Bureau Creates Unit To Eavesdrop On Internet Communications by Sara Gates: With the Federal Bureau of Investigation's recent push for web wiretaps and increased Internet surveillance, the U.S. seems to be edging closer to the fictional state described in George Orwell's "1984. [read post]
16 May 2012, 2:29 am
(with apologies to George Orwell). [read post]
15 May 2012, 3:00 am by Terry Hart
History is fascinating, but I’m not a historian. [read post]
3 May 2012, 10:03 am by David Gilmore
For those of us who read George Orwell’s book, 1984, the thought of “Big Brother” watching us can be a little chilling. [read post]