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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.
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
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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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More evidence that out-of-control government is bad
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column for National Review Online reminds us of the dangers associated with an unchecked government. Social observers from Aristotle and Juvenal to James Madison and George…
Education
Walter Williams focuses on higher ed’s attacks on free speech
Walter Williams‘ latest column at Human Events details continual attacks on free speech within American colleges and universities. George Orwell said, “There are some ideas so absurd that only an…
Elections & Public Integrity
Goldberg takes on early voting
Now that voting is over (for the most part) across the nation, Jonah Goldberg shares with National Review Online readers his concerns about early voting. It used to be that…
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Barone wonders whether the president still clings to delusions
Michael Barone‘s latest column at Human Events suggests that President Obama continues to cling to some harmful delusions that are contradicted by historical evidence. … [O]ne hopes that, as Obama…
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The United States of Oceania?
Is the USA heading in the direction of Orwell’s Oceania, the country run by Big Brother’s omnipotent government in 1984? Very much so argues lawyer Allen Mendenhall in this terrific…
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Are Charles and David Koch evil?
Lately, defenders of statism have taken to attacking Charles and David Koch in the same manner as Big Brother’s regime attacked Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell’s 1984. People will stay with…
Regulation
Why do we need an FCC?
Barron’s editorial page editor Thomas Donlan explains in his latest commentary why a Federal Communications Commission makes little sense in a republic devoted to the notion of free speech. The…
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Hanson examines our Orwellian world
Victor Davis Hanson devotes a National Review Online column to author George Orwell’s prescience. The nightmare societies portrayed in the George Orwell novels 1984 and Animal Farm gave us the…
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“it can make a nice tool for keeping an eye on critics/dissenters.”
If you’re one of those people who ignores concerns about government violation of privacy, it’s time to open your eyes. “Monitor large public events, social unrest, gang communications and criminally…
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Lying and the social construction of ‘truth’
DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered;…