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13 Feb 2024, 6:31 am
In influential masterpieces near the end of his life, George Orwell dilated on the negative role that obscurantist language and the denial of objective fact could have on the ability of societies to protect democracy and human freedom. [read post]
2 Apr 2014, 8:33 am
The revelations over the past nine months that the United States is engaging in various mass-surveillance programs that collect and store huge amounts of information about both Americans and foreigners has rightly invited frequent references to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. [read post]
12 Nov 2007, 12:00 am
George Orwell's novel tells the story of Winston Smith, a member of the Outer Party living in the ruins of London, a chief city in the totalitarian super-state of Oceania. [read post]
8 Apr 2012, 11:59 am
George Orwell was amazingly prescient. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 9:09 am
George Orwell was right about a lot of things, including this essay on revenge. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 1:29 am
"So are the best political blogs - that's why so many powerful people want to silence them. [read post]
18 Jul 2024, 4:23 pm
I'm thinking about that today, watching this: MSNBC host: JD Vance wishing to join his family plot (6 generations) in Kentucky is WHITE MALE SUPREMACY pic.twitter.com/zYfYtdSqmt— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 18, 2024 You have to go to college to think that up.He went on a long sort of paragraph at least about this plot in Eastern Kentucky where his seven or six generations of his family are are buried, and his hope is that his wife and he are eventually laid to rest there, and their… [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 2:00 pm
At ALI CLE’s Practical Lawyer, Professor Michael Walsh (Villanova) discusses and the six rules and offers thoughts on applying them. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 2:30 am
He was George Orwell's editor at Tribune, the left-wing newspaper for which Orwell wrote a wonderful column called "As I Please" - a good title for a column that was often unorthodox from a left-wing point of view. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 2:47 am
"What do Jon Stewart, William Shakespeare, Sojouner Truth, Juan Williams, Jenna Bush, 50 Cent, John Grisham, Noam Chomsky, Stephen King, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Gore Vidal, George Orwell, Gustave Flaubert, George Carlin, and Sister Helen Prejean have in common? [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 4:30 am
The home of George Orwell now leading the way? [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 9:40 am
George Orwell criticized liberals for apologizing for Communism; he continues to inspire me to persist in my position that Islam unreformed, when put into practice, leads to a dystopia. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 4:17 am
From CounterPunch by Mark Kernan: In 1937 George Orwell said that coal mining was the ‘metabolism’ of western civilisation. [read post]
3 May 2012, 10:03 am
For those of us who read George Orwell’s book, 1984, the thought of “Big Brother” watching us can be a little chilling. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 1:38 pm
Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIGA) the UK government will begin collecting information on every website search, telephone call, and email message, despite the lack of support from the public and from many of the government's own advisors.... [read post]
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]
27 Jan 2022, 7:19 am
" The George Orwell essay is "England, Your England" (1941): When you come back to England from any foreign country, you have immediately the sensation of breathing a different air. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 2:42 pm
The company has settled a lawsuit brought on by the deletion of two eBooks, George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 5:15 pm
George Orwell’s 1984 is one of my all time favourite books, but while it was written as a dystopian prediction of the future, no one expected to see ‘Big Brother’ translated into reality. [read post]
11 Oct 2007, 12:59 pm
I wonder whether it would also apply to George Orwell's Animal Farm, in which the principal villain is a Berkshire Boar named Napoleon. [read post]
