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In a new documentary presented at the Cannes Film Festival, director Raoul Peck uses the British writer’s thoughts to analyze ...
The Trump administration is considering doing away with federal tax credits for day care — claiming that it’s “discriminatory ...
“1984” is set in the totalitarian state of Oceania, where war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength. Citizens are kept closely in line by the ruling Party, which is controlled ...
Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory ... “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery.” But for me, the most disturbing ...
A third term? King Trump? Is he joking? Are we in the Backwards-land of “1984” where “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength”? – Doublethink. This, according to Orwell ...
1984’s meaning has been co-opted by groups ... the Party’s primary propaganda slogans—“War is peace,” “Freedom is slavery” and “Ignorance is strength”—don’t seem all that ...
“war is peace,” “freedom is slavery,” “ignorance is strength.” Antisemitism is anti-antisemitism. Let us not be fooled. The government’s war on the universities uses “Jews as a ...