Other subreddits even got in on calling out this display of power-crazed despotism, comparing it to the worst excesses of the Ingsoc party in 1984.Though I don't think even the most depraved ...

In his book Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell paints a totalitarian British society ruled by IngSoc (English Socialism) that has a crushing control of every aspects of life of the party members.

“The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc (English socialism), but to make all other modes of ...

What George Orwell would say about Trump – and how to handle him. Orwell conjured up the ultimate dictatorship to illustrate how anti-democratic leaders use brazen deceit to prove and magnify ...

According to Edward Dowd, historical examples of media control, such as Germany's Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment & Propaganda, are comparable to the fictional INGSOC from Orwell's '1984'. This ...

In Orwell's novel, members of the Ingsoc party must accept paradoxical slogans such as "war is peace". Source: Joel Frohlich (created with Midjourney) In George Orwell's novel 1984, the entire ...

Let’s examine where our favorite show started, when, who created it, what the major influences were, where it got its name, who won the first Big Brother, and who has won the biggest grand prize ...

That includes, by the way, Elon Musk, who has posted extensively about the U.K.'s crackdown on free speech in the wake of the ...

George Orwell’s 1948 classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four now has a companion volume, one which retells events from a different point of view, with a feminist slant.

In 1995, Umberto Eco published one of his masterpieces: Eternal fascism - 14 ways of looking at a Blackshirt. Eco lived through Mussolini’s dark years. He tasted the bitterness of fascism.

This chilling extract is from Sandra Newman's retelling of George Orwell's dystopian classic, 1984, the latest pick for our New Scientist Book Club. It takes place as Newman's protagonist Julia ...