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15 Jan 2021, 7:42 am
Well, first, it's in the book's subtitle, "The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 11:55 am by José Guillermo
Los que gozan de una tribuna en los medios son una suerte de "dioses sin aureola", pueden decir lo que les parezca y NO es posible debatir sus ideas; Bueno no soy de aquellos que se callan ante lo que a mi juicio  es una arbitrariedad en la era de la información y velocidad.Trascribiré íntegramente la opinión de Ernesto Alvarez Miranda,  Abogado y ex Magistrado del Tribunal Constitucional, muy leído, su estilo de escribir me recuerda mucho al de… [read post]
5 Jan 2021, 8:45 am by Jonathan Bailey
That amount would include $4.41 million in copyright damages and $11.2 million in trademark damages. 3: George Orwell is Out of Copyright. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 5:30 pm
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949) [cd unabridged]3. [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 4:06 am by rainey Reitman
Show and HBO Go Can Teach Us About the Important of Digital Ownership (Public Knowledge) Abuses and Failures of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and End User Licensing Agreements (EULAs) EFF’s DRM Issues Page DRM Puts the Brakes on Innovation (EFF) Orwell in 2009: Dystopian Rights Management (EFF) DRM’s Dead Canary: How We Just Lost the Web, What We Learned from It, and What We Need to Do Next (EFF) One Weird Trick to Improve Copyright: Fix EULAs (EFF) Sorry iPhone Users:… [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 2:30 am
Then I realized this is the problem of the dying metaphor that George Orwell wrote about. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 1:08 pm by Tom Smith
This is the totalitarian pathology that George Orwell called “double-think. [read post]
28 Aug 2020, 6:22 am
Clearly, she was there to reach out to people who might like some or a lot of what Trump is doing but think there's something brutal and rough about him and nice people don't associate with that.My choice of the word "rough" makes me think of that famous line attributed to George Orwell: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. [read post]
2 Aug 2020, 6:02 am by Tom Smith
Questioning the current campus orthodoxy even in the context of serious academic inquiry is now considered a capital offense by the growing number of people who, as Daniel Schwammenthal put it earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal, “seem to understand George Orwell’s ‘1984’ not as a warning but as a manual. [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 4:13 am by SHG
**When George Orwell wrote about “meaningless words,” he was talking about people who do the Berlatsky. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 3:55 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Contrary to popular opinion, Chinese surveillance is not the black-and-white image of evil, oppression, and ruthless efficiency suggested by George Orwell’s dystopian totalitarian state in his book, 1984. [read post]
28 Jun 2020, 10:57 am by Tom Smith
In the words of Orwell, a truly successful ideological revolution means that “every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 4:31 pm by David Friedman
Scott is basically a left winger with libertarian sympathies, intelligently critical of many parts of the left — he reminds me in that respect of George Orwell. [read post]
25 Jun 2020, 6:17 am by China Law Blog
Orígenes, cambios y desafíos de la brecha social en Chile (United Nations Development Program) and The Plot Against America: A Novel (Philip Roth) Jonathan – Tiananmen vigil in Hong Kong draws thousands despite coronavirus-related ban (South China Morning Post) Fred – Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) If you have comments on this episode or if you’d like to suggest topics for future episodes, please email globallawbiz@harrisbricken.com. [read post]
2 Jun 2020, 7:22 am by Tom Smith
George Orwell’s timeless admonition, “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them,” has been given new life by the desperate efforts of pundits, scholars and Twitter blue-checks to defend the violence, looting, disorder and general monstrousness that have overtaken America’s cities. [read post]
25 May 2020, 5:49 am
The idea that insecure men support bullies and authoritarians is hardly new; recall that one of George Orwell’s characters in 1984 dismissed all the “marching up and down and cheering and waving flags” as “simply sex gone sour. [read post]
22 May 2020, 8:51 am by Jeffery Robinson
 George Orwell warned us that who controls the past controls the future. [read post]
8 May 2020, 11:25 am by Haskell Murray
Published in 1985, Postman’s thesis is that Huxley in Brave New World, not George Orwell in his dystopian novel 1984, more accurately predicted life in... [read post]
26 Apr 2020, 9:10 pm by Paul R. Verkuil
George Orwell’s classic novel came of age, with its four Ministries of Peace, Love, Plenty, and Truth that brilliantly described their opposites. [read post]