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We are plunging into a world eerily similar to George Orwell’s novel “1984. ... Columnist Carrie N. Baker: ‘War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.’ — 1984 in 2025 .
Even though he published1984 nearly 80 years ago in 1948, just two years before he died, more than three quarters of a century later, in the age of President Donald Trump, his fictional fantasy is ...
Donald Trump’s presidency is often compared to a reality TV show. Yet that conceit barely captures the radical strangeness of ...
In a previous era, Americans responded to military action by rallying around the flag. But things have gotten a lot more ...
History is shaped not just by what happened, but also by what didn’t. In the early 1980s, India was ready for a pre-emptive ...
This mirrors the dystopian world of George Orwell’s ‘1984’, where perpetual war is waged based on cynical and false assumptions, where “war is peace… freedom is slavery… and ignorance ...
In “1984,” Oceania is battling Eurasia but then announces it has always been at war with Eastasia instead. The Soviet Union had been our nemesis for decades, but Trump suddenly switched to ...