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Turning Twitter’s Ship Won’t Be Easy
Andrew Stuttaford writes at National Review Online about the challenges Elon Musk faces at Twitter. Writing n the New York Times, Yoel Roth, the former “head of trust and safety”…
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
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Republican Senators Can Disable Biden’s Disinfomation Board
Rachel Bovard explains for the Federalist how Republican senators can block one of President Biden’s worst ideas. In an apparent homage to George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” — one the…
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Prime Minister of Draconian Australia Contracts COVID
Jess Lawson writes for the Blue State Conservative about one of the most interesting recent cases of COVID. The tyranny we’ve seen inflicted in the name of COVID on citizens…
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Orwell Was Right About the Danger of Authoritarians Controlling Language
Bill Rice writes for the American Thinker about dangerous twists in our language. Of all the elements of today’s “New Normal,” the most ominous is the “reform” that effectively changed…
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Australia Offers Cautionary COVID Tale
John Hinderaker of the Powerline blog highlights the latest evidence of Australia going mad. I used to think that Australians are a freedom-loving people, but that has turned out not…
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Rationality Is Not Just for White Men
Rich Lowry of National Review Online questions a dubious narrative popular among some segments of the political left. George Orwell famously said that “there are some ideas so absurd that…
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1984 Is a Bestseller In 2021
I saw this book prominently displayed in a bookstore a few days ago, and I was tempted to buy it. Again. I had a copy back in my college days,…
Education
Hillsdale president revisits 1984
Larry Arnn of Hillsdale College revisits George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel in the latest issue of Imprimis. In Orwell’s 1984, there are telescreens everywhere, as well as hidden cameras and…
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‘Was he then, alone, in the possession of a memory?’
Imagine what it must be to live in a society like that of dystopian fiction.
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Chinese government policies reminiscent of 1984
Victor Davis Hanson argues at National Review Online that current Chinese government policies recall the fictional abuses in George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel. The Chinese Communist government increasingly poses an…
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About those political cults
Stella Morabito of the Federalist pushes back against the narrative that President Trump’s supporters act like a cult. So, in their effort to label Trump as a cult leader and…
Education
Martin Center column explores gender partisanship in the federal Education Department
Kursat Pekgoz and James Moore write for the Martin Center about what they describe as a federal equivalent of the “ministry of love.” Orwell’s famous dystopia 1984 is often cited…