Add Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn to the list of American politicians who need a George Orwell refresher. Chances are, you’ve seen Orwell’s name thrown around a lot in the past year on social media ...

Doubleplusgood: Peter Cushing as Winston Smith in the BBC's 1954 production of Nineteen Eighty-Four - TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy Stock Photo EIn the upcoming Radio 4 series Orwell vs Kafka, Ian Hislop recounts ...

“If we begin to feel that we’re being surveilled all the time, our behavior changes. We begin to do less. We begin to think about things less. We begin to modify how we think.” – Tim Cook The English ...

Free speech has been questioned since Donald Trump’s Twitter ban. (Charles Deluvio via Unsplash) Picture this: Twenty years from now, the next generation of high school students unveil their AP U.S.

His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism back in 1949. A startling new documentary from Raoul Peck looks at Orwell’s life. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Events that have been taking place in Washington will force dystopian novelists to try a little harder to imagine the collapse of civilization. When Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump’s ...

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When I was growing up, the lessons of 1984 – the dystopian novel by George Orwell – were all thought to pertain to the Soviet Union. Big Brother was Josef Stalin – controlling the thoughts of his ...

The death of Joan Didion, the most profound essayist about language since George Orwell, comes at a time when one of her most astute observations — that words have meaning and consequences — is being ...

2023-03-30T09:21:29-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/136/003/1680182525_003.jpgOrwellian "double-speak" prepared statement to be fed to a viewership which has ...