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15 Aug 2019, 9:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
Do you include fiction on your legal history syllabi? [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 9:30 am by jonathanturley
Here is the column: “1984” author George Orwell warned that “if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. [read post]
26 Oct 2017, 5:47 am by bryannewland
(Only in a George Orwell novel can increasing the number of bureaucratic hurdles be described as “streamlining,” but I digress). [read post]
5 Nov 2011, 2:06 pm by Derek Bambauer
That not only places a burden on Google, Bing, and other search sites, but it "vaporizes" (to use George Orwell's term) the targeted sites until they can prove they're licit. [read post]
5 Nov 2011, 2:05 pm by Derek Bambauer
That not only places a burden on Google, Bing, and other search sites, but it “vaporizes” (to use George Orwell’s term) the targeted sites until they can prove they’re licit. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 4:40 pm by INFORRM
In the tribunal’s view, restrictions in such circumstances bear a discomforting resemblance to George Orwell’s thoughtcrime. [read post]
26 May 2015, 4:00 am by Adam Dodek
There were books that I took the opportunity to re-read and discuss with my son: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and George Orwell’s Animal Farm. [read post]
3 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
”When there is a phrase that is being misused or that has no meaning, I try to follow George Orwell’s instructions to refuse to use the phrase. [read post]
The broad range of software tracking and monitoring services will continue to grow in 2018, as will the related concerns that George Orwell’s 1984 “Big Brother” is afoot in the workplace. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 1:06 pm by Guest Blogger Brandon Beck
George Orwell also warns in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” of an “inflated style” and its tendency to obscure: “The inflated style itself is a kind of euphemism. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 5:19 am by SHG
Krugman then channels George Orwell, a requirement in such arguments. [read post]
The broad range of software tracking and monitoring services will continue to grow in 2018, as will the related concerns that George Orwell’s 1984 “Big Brother” is afoot in the workplace. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 2:02 pm by Jeffrey Kahn
Imagine if George Orwell and Franz Kafka joined forces to create a list of persons whom the state wished to deny the right to travel. [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 7:11 pm by Martin Husovec
Historical momentIn his famous book 1984, George Orwell wrote that “[h]e who controls the past controls the future”. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 11:16 am by David Friedman
George Orwell described the loss of religious belief as the amputation of the soul and suggested that the operation, while necessary, had turned out to be more than a simple surgical job. [read post]
8 Apr 2014, 9:07 am by Michael D. Thompson
(A personal note: if you believe the reference to “Big Brother” relates to a TV show by that name, I’d encourage you to pick up the seminal George Orwell novel 1984, wherein the phrase was born.) [read post]
17 Jul 2015, 7:08 am by Lovechilde
The effect is to provide fodder for right-wing chest-pounding about “life,” derail serious public debate about actual issues, and give self-important programs like Meet the Press something to discuss with faux experts so they can avoid tackling real subjects.The newest example is in coverage of the so-called fetal body parts scandal, created by the “Center for Medical Progress,” named apparently by George Orwell, and an arm of leading anti-choice movement… [read post]
25 Sep 2021, 8:16 am by Allan Blutstein
Its name was a kind of reverse homage to the incinerator used to destroy embarrassing government files in George Orwell’s “1984. [read post]