Nearly a century ago, the novelist George Orwell predicted a world dominated by three great powers. Small countries would ...

More than an ordinary biography, the documentary recalls Orwell in the last years of his life. Sick with tuberculosis and isolated on a remote farm on the Scottish island of Jura, he was determined to ...

There is also a summary table for printing with the commonly requested statistics and a map showing the location of this site. Monthly statistics are only included if there are more than 10 years of ...

In the 75 years since 1984 was published, Orwell’s opening line has lost none of its shock value. When we say “Orwellian” today, we mean the normalisation of the absurd, which is essentially the ...

Chief Meteorologist Brad Panovich from our sibling station, WCNC, in Charlotte, North Carolina, assembled each of the pictures to construct a full-scale interactive map of the tornado's entire ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Raoul Peck’s vital documentary Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, which premiered tonight at the Cannes Film Festival, makes it startlingly clear the degree to which we are living in Orwellian times.The ...

George Orwell himself has gone in and out of favor ... That’s particularly true of his final work, the dystopian premonition 1984. Published 76 years ago, the novel is the core of Raoul Peck ...

Raoul Peck's essay film about the creation of "1984" uses George Orwell's words and writings as a jumping-off point to chart the rise of modern fascism. On January 8, 2021, Donald Trump Jr. took ...

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 ...

We live in a time when governments use lexical distortions to manipulate public opinion – the very thing author George Orwell captured so cogently in his dystopian novel 1984, where the ...

given that the “thoughtcrime” prophesied by George Orwell’s pen – those committed by those who dare to think things that the “Ministry of Truth” has decided should not be thought – is now a reality in ...