Community Voices Turns out Trump is a reader, after all His favorite book must be George Orwell’s ‘1984.’ Just look at the parallels to his presidency.

For Orwell, the ways in which people are dominated and controlled is not through pleasure but through pain. 1984, in many ways, is a very graphic tale of someone’s torture and eventual breakdown.

Orwell's 1984 is a warning against Bernie Sanders-style socialism, not against anything having to do with Donald Trump.

George Orwell’s “1984,” published seventy years ago today, has had an amazing run as a work of political prophecy. It has outlasted in public awareness other contenders from its era, such as ...

A “mystery benefactor” bought the copies of George Orwell’s dystopian satire at Booksmith and asked that they be given away free to interested customers, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.