While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...
One of the most intriguing developments in our current unpredictable political climate has been the Left’s co-opting of George Orwell’s dystopian ... with its Ministry of Truth, Ministry ...
If you have read a corporate report recently, you probably know what kind of writing Orwell was describing. The same problems he identified in political writing plague business communication: overused ...
Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography ... because it often gives me the feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world." ...
The University of London's Senate House building was the wartime Ministry of Information and Orwell's Ministry of Truth When George Orwell described the "Ministry of Truth" in his novel 1984 he ...
George Orwell, who wrote about war, totalitarianism, nationalism and patriotism in the 1940s, would have had a lot to say about Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric.
George Orwell died in 1950 ... rational thinking and truth. There are two kinds of proud Englishmen (and it’s nearly always men) who like to brandish Orwell. Both have in common a desire ...
If you care at all about privacy, sovereignty, and freedom, the lessons of George Orwell's 1984 are more ... Doublethink, as portrayed by Orwell, presents two opposing ideas as the truth. For example, ...
While the year 1984 has come and gone, there’s a reason the classic dystopian novel 1984 is still taught in schools 75 years ...
George Orwell’s political thinking was dramatically ... “Orwell was a real empiricist who believed that all truth must be derived from what you can touch and feel, so it led to a certain ...
Readers of George Orwell’s novel—still reeling ... Words matter because facts matter—because truth matters. Freedom, in 1984, is many things, but they all spring from the same source ...
The author, George Orwell, published Animal Farm in 1945 ... lies and rumoursto distort the truth. Animal Farm's clever depictions of ideas in politics reflect many of the issues we are facing ...