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15 Jul 2008, 10:17 am
More articles here.07/14/2008More and more, George Orwell's 1984 becoming realityâ€â [read post]
7 Jul 2008, 8:00 am
Along the lines of the argument from George Orwell that I noted in a post last week, this lack of clarity makes the word both potent for demagogues and -- more to Orwell's larger point -- potentially confusing for its users. [read post]
2 Jul 2008, 7:50 am
Whenever I can find any excuse to do so, I include George Orwell's classic essay "Politics and the English Language" on my course syllabi. [read post]
24 Jun 2008, 3:43 am
Watching this video of George Carlin reminded me of another George: Orwell. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 3:36 pm
In this respect, I stand with George Orwell who spent the 1930s and 1940s denouncing the obscurity of intellectuals' prose as a cloak for tyranny. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 2:14 pm
In the course of explaining why he is an "anti-intellectual," Rick Hills invokes Martha Nussbaum, Immanuel Kant, Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, George Orwell, Pierre Bourdieu, and Socratesâ€â [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 1:04 pm
In this respect, I stand with George Orwell who spent the 1930s and 1940s denouncing the obscurity of intellectuals' prose as a cloak for tyranny (and, incidentally, who was also accused of being an anti-intellectual). [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 2:23 am
""In the Seventh Circuit, Judges Posner and Easterbrook combined for nearly all citations to fiction, and over 80 percent of all references to George Orwell. [read post]
8 Apr 2008, 7:39 pm
" * The most frequently cited authors are "George Orwell (61 citations); William Shakespeare (35); Franz Kafka (34); John Milton (20); Homer, Chaucer, and Oscar Wilde (14 each). [read post]
8 Apr 2008, 9:45 am
George Eliot’s characters make terrible mistakes, but we never lose empathy with them. [read post]
26 Mar 2008, 2:44 am
* * * WARNING * * *Video may be disturbing to many people, viewer discretion is advised! [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 6:39 am
The site’s administrator seems to have a sense of humour as well: I picked the first immediately recognizable book on the list, 1984 by George Orwell, and asked it to find me some matches. [read post]
10 Mar 2008, 8:48 am
After Bellfield's conviction, the News of the World featured a former partner who suffered "10 years of horror", while the Sunday Mirror had his daughter recalling how he "gave her vodka to drink at 10 ... and mustard powder to eat".The piece contrasts George Orwell's comments on murder in a 1946 essay published in News of the World with what reporters write today. [read post]
9 Mar 2008, 11:35 pm
George Orwell would certainly be proud.One of the reasons this bit of propaganda is important is because payments to the injured had nothing to do with the rate hike. [read post]
6 Mar 2008, 2:03 am
He doesn't seem to get anywhere but he provokes one commenter to remind us of what George Orwell wrote about "dying metaphors" in "Politics and the English Language":DYING METAPHORS. [read post]
4 Mar 2008, 8:22 pm
Session :Bills : flsenate.gov(See also H317)Senate Bill S816: TRAFFIC INFRACTION INDICATORSThis is George Orwell and 1984. [read post]
4 Mar 2008, 9:44 am
Or maybe a quote from George Orwell’s 1984 is more appropriate here. [read post]
2 Mar 2008, 12:28 pm
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. [read post]
1 Feb 2008, 5:36 pm
Such nightmarish due process violations and abuse of language always bring to mind Kafka and Orwell, and for me, of course, Lenny Bruce and George Carlin. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 12:11 am
Not surprisingly, Attorney General Mukasey has proven George Orwell right: He refuses to say that waterboarding is unlawful -- sometimes it is; and sometimes . . . perhaps not. [read post]
