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The Trump administration is considering doing away with federal tax credits for day care — claiming that it’s “discriminatory ...
Italian Futurism was an art movement led by the charismatic poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. It was known for futurists’ love ...
Acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck revisits the resonance of George Orwell's work, but somewhat obscures the message of his ...
As someone who has taught and fought for women’s rights for close to four decades, I find it intensely frustrating how the ...
Raoul Peck's film is an artful balancing act that dips in and out of Orwell’s life and work and swings from history to art to the most current of events The post ‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Review: Angry ...
On January 8, 2021, Donald Trump Jr. took to X (then Twitter) to declare that his father's suspension from the platform was a sign that "We are living in Orwell's ‘1984.' Free speech no longer ...
For about half an hour or so, Raoul Peck’s documentary “Orwell: 2+2=5” is amazingly restrained in the way it deals with author George Orwell, his seminal dystopian novel “1984” and its ...
“Alternative facts.” 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, ...
“I don’t accept George Orwell’s doublethink.” And as Trump unleashed a torrent of norm-puncturing executive orders, so many references to 1984 have flooded the political conversation that ...
In George Orwell ... in tribute to Orwell’s love for the drink, which the writer described as “one of the mainstays of civiliaztions in this country” in an essay published in 1946.