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18 Apr 2012, 6:06 pm by Deborah Pearlstein
Perhaps the most remarkable session, though, was the dinner talk given by General Michael Hayden, who held, among other positions, the job of CIA director during the George W. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 2:56 pm
Maybe George Orwell's famous Animal Farm line is an appropriate epitaph for this sort of action in the Empire State: “Four legs good. [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 9:41 am by Stewart Baker
  The privacy groups were not much in evidence, and their arguments about the dangers of a giant database were undercut by the fact that four of the five data-sharing networks needed to implement REAL ID are already in operation, with George Orwell nowhere in sight. [read post]
24 Mar 2012, 5:52 pm by Jason Shinn
  Second, asking or requiring an employee or applicant's social media log-in information reminds me of the fictional character "Big Brother" from George Orwell's novel 1984. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 5:52 pm
— assumes we readers will all want to puke when we see that Shepard Fairey — the artist behind the famous Obama "Hope" poster — is working on a new movie version of George Orwell’s 1984. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 9:25 pm by Eugene Volokh
(If your answer to all these questions is “yes”, I suggest you reread George Orwell’s “1984?.) [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 8:20 am
George Orwell's 1984 may be returning to the screen. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 6:30 am by Howard Knopf
Glover’s blog, he seems to be saying: -         That Michael Geist and I are publishing “misinformation masquerading as the correction of misinformation, a concept George Orwell labelled as “doublethink”;-         That the “three-step test” from treaty law should be literally adopted in Canadian jurisprudence and incorporated into the Copyright Act, just to ensure… [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 6:53 am by Adam Gillette
George Orwell may have also written about this phenomena.Slate.com writer Matthew Yglesias points to a perfect example of this type of mindless opposition. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 5:30 am by Walter Olson
And thanks to Pete Warden in comments for the relevant George Orwell quote. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 9:41 am
George Orwell told you long ago — in "Politics and the English Language": "Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. [read post]
18 Feb 2012, 9:14 am by Dan Hargrove
  Naming the bill "Whistleblower Improvement Act" is straight out of George Orwell's 1984. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 2:10 pm
The problem of just what the Cold War was was anticipated by George Orwell in 1945. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 12:29 pm by Mary L. Dudziak
The problem of just what the Cold War was was anticipated by George Orwell in 1945. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 8:20 pm by Mary L. Dudziak
The problem of just what the Cold War was was anticipated by George Orwell in 1945. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 9:08 pm by Richard Painter
  This is not George Orwell’s 1984, but it is closer than many of us would want. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 7:34 am by Amy Howe
” Not quite three months after an oral argument in which some Justices raised the specter of “Big Brother” monitoring ordinary people twenty-four hours a day, along the lines of George Orwell and the novel 1984, the Court affirmed the lower court’s decision. [read post]