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31 Jan 2012, 5:52 am
An appellate lawyer can glean a lot about the likely outcome of a case from the questions justices and judges pose, or don't pose, during oral argument.In Jones, Justice Steven Breyer likened the government's position to George Orwell's 1984, commenting to the Solicitor General, "If you win this case, there is nothing to prevent police or government from monitoring 24-hours a day, every citizen of the United… [read post]
28 Jan 2012, 6:54 am
An appellate lawyer can glean a lot about the likely outcome of a case from the questions justices and judges pose, or don't pose, during oral argument.In Jones, Justice Steven Breyer likened the government's position to George Orwell's 1984, commenting to the Solicitor General, "If you win this case, there is nothing to prevent police or government from monitoring 24-hours a day, every citizen of the United… [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 2:20 pm
JEFFREY BROWN: And they were talking about George Orwell and "1984. [read post]
21 Jan 2012, 9:00 pm
Did George Orwell have any idea that his 1984 barely scratched the surface of then-approaching governmental incursions on individuals' privacy? [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 7:27 am
– George Orwell Bad enough it is, as we saw in preceding parts, that the Chelsea Housing Authority as controlled by the deceitful and now-fired Michael McLaughlin used its power of selective enforcement to cow residents into silence, but as reported in the Boston Globe (December 31, 2011), if that were not enough, it also rewarded staff for their efforts in doing so: Now we come to the capstone, the most damning case of all: Francine Dorrance would be… [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 11:31 pm
George Orwell's experience as a 'plongeur' in the kitchens of grand Paris hotels is a good place to start. [read post]
16 Jan 2012, 6:11 am
It doesn’t matter that, with tones of George Orwell or Hannah Arendt, the terms sounds a lot like the type of categorizing/labeling of people even little children know they should never engage in. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 10:40 am
Image via WikipediaThe New York Times' Dealbook is reporting today that the 98-year-old bastion of liberal literati, The New Republic, is looking for suitors that either may result in an ownership change or a stable of new investors.Founded by political scribe Walter Lippmann in 1914 and whose pages in the past have been graced by prominent authors such as Philip Roth, George Orwell and Virginia Wolff, The New Republic has been owned since 2009 by long-time Editor-in-Chief… [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 10:34 am
With no need to do so, they imperiously interrupted a recount of the people's vote in Florida, usurped jurisdiction from state courts, invented a legal theory out of thin air, and arbitrarily seated corporate-favorite George W in the White House. [read post]
THE NEW AUTHORITARIANISM: At City Journal, Fred Siegel and Joel Kotkin write: If Obama does win, 20…
9 Jan 2012, 10:48 am
To paraphrase Steven Den Beste on George Orwell’s 1984, Liberal Fascism: A warning for the rest of us; a user’s manual for the left. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 3:06 am
Every year, we award prizes for the work – the book, the journalism and (since 2009) the blog – which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 9:48 am
Critics condemn EDRs suggesting they are surveillance monitors akin to those used by "Big Brother" in George Orwell's novel "1984. [read post]
2 Jan 2012, 3:01 pm
As George Orwell might say, some Twitter followers are more equal than others. [read post]
26 Dec 2011, 2:18 pm
" ~ George Orwell (spl) [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 4:02 pm
Gavin Freeguard (@gavinfreeguard) – Orwell Prize deputy director; senior editor at the Media Standards Trust. 34. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 8:33 pm
Quite the contrary: I think the Orwell brand offered much more to the Hitchens brand than vice versa (idle thought: a slasher-attack on George Orwell--now that would dtake courage). [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 8:25 pm
Mencken and George Orwell (with a dash of Hunter Thompson). [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 10:18 am
George Orwell, "As I please," 8 December 1944. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 5:43 pm
That part of my scholarship that focuses on Russian law sometimes makes it hard for me to avoid thinking about the original model for Big Brother that George Orwell had in mind when I read about the latest anxieties about the state’s relationship to cyberspace. [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 4:48 am
Gavin Freeguard (@gavinfreeguard) – Orwell Prize deputy director; senior editor at the Media Standards Trust. 28. [read post]
