Liberty
Speech Police Come for the Late Roald Dahl
Charles Cooke of National Review Online laments the effort to rewrite the works of his favorite childhood author. No more Roald Dahl meant the unthinkable: no more books by Roald…
Winston Smith
fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty Four
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New-Normaling: How They Try to Get You to Accept Bad Policy Outcomes
Preface: The political class has drifted far from Lincoln’s vision of a government “of the people, by the people, for the people” — something that those words and the solemn…
Health Care
The CDC Quietly Removed Key “Facts” About mRNA Vaccines
Read the whole thing. Two changes I'd like to highlight here are (a) changes to the CDC's early discussion about "temporary discomfort" from the injection and, even more importantly, (b)…
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…
Liberty
‘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.
Liberty
Progressives are reading Nineteen Eighty-Four now. Hope they take it to heart.
The election of Barack Obama, with his immediate attention as president-elect going to his stimulus plan, boosted the sales of a particular book: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. The Economist at the time…
Energy
Putting inconvenient facts down the memory hole — a local example
In today’s Carolina Journal, publisher Jon Ham decries “a disturbing trend among mainstream news outlets these days”—which is “putting inconvenient news or facts ‘down the memory hole.’” Ham’s examples come…
Liberty
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…
Liberty
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;…
Liberty
I see the sprawl problem now
There it is! “Sitting on my half acre.” You can’t sit on a half-acre if you don’t have a half-acre to sit on. Sitting leads to being sedentary. A sedentary…