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He is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today?
One of the most intriguing developments in our current unpredictable political climate has been the Left’s co-opting of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 as a dramatic warning of the ...
George Orwell ... depicted in 1984 is, ultimately, “an impassioned defence of human rights”, says Prof David Dwan. A self-proclaimed democratic socialist and a humanist, Orwell was among ...
Following Trump's Orwellian "Liberation Day," a doublethinking America is on its way to becoming another Oceania.
1984, Brave New World, The Handmaid’s Tale — these were all calls to arms.” On February 13, the New York Times published “Orwell’s 1984 or Huxley’s Brave New World?” Truthdig ...
The year 2003 marks the centennial of author George Orwell ... It was 1984 and, I’m sure it was the anniversary of... Ben Wattenberg: Podhoretz claims Orwell’s patrimony for the New York ...
1984 ends not with a bang, but with a grammar lesson. Readers of George Orwell ... thought.” The essay, over the years, has ...
Shortly before he died George ... writes about Orwell's "Secular crusade," or of John Atkins who calls him a "social saint," forgetting perhaps that Orwell had written in his essay on Gandhi ...