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What Does George Orwell's '1984' Mean in 2024?
Smithsonian Magazine· 1 day agoIn recent years, some conservative American groups have adopted the slogan “Make Orwell fiction again,” a line that suggests the dystopian depictions of...
The West faces an Orwellian new threat to its freedom, and our leaders are asleep
Daily Telegraph· 5 hours agoRishi Sunak rightly apologised. How great was the slight he offered to the D-Day celebrations by...
Canada’s Extremist Attack on Free Speech
The Atlantic· 1 day agoIn 1984, George Orwell coined the term thoughtcrime. In the short story “The Minority Report,” the science-fiction author Philip K. Dick gave us the concept ...
Banishing Captain Underpants: An investigation of the 3,400 books pulled in Iowa.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoRepublican lawmakers who passed the law contend that school officials have gone far beyond the law’s...
GOP Rep. Compares Trump’s Conviction To Nazis' Rise To Power In 1930s Germany
HuffPost· 1 day ago“The similarities to what the Democrat Party has been doing, they cannot be denied,” Rep. Derrick...
Review: ‘The Machine Stops’ by E.M. Forster reminds us to cherish authentic human connection
Los Angeles Times· 1 day agoIt presents a reality where people are slowly losing their humanity due to a lack of connection with...
China Wants You to Forget Tiananmen Ever Happened
Bloomberg· 4 days agoBeijing’s control of Hong Kong means the city will not commemorate the massacre’s 35th anniversary. Karishma Vaswani is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist...
'Russia now is like 1984': Inside a Russian dystopian library
BBC News· 5 days agoIf the billboards in Ivanovo are to be believed, Russia’s really going places. In this town, a...
Re: '80s Flashback
AARP· 2 days agoOn this day in music, June 4, 1984, Bruce Springsteen released his 7th studio album Born In The USA, which became the best-selling album of 1985, and the Boss’ best-selling ...
Project 2025 is a threat to democracy | Opinion
Seattle Times· 1 day agoThere are a multitude of issues that voters must assess when deciding between President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and the independent...