In ‘1984,’ George Orwell envisaged a world in which books were a mass-produced commodity no different from ‘jam and bootlaces.’
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Orwell argued that you don’t have to be a scientist to think more scientifically.
Orwell is feted for the farsightedness of his geopolitical vision as long ago as the 1940s. But a lot of writers were thinking along similar lines.
Like many of us, Orwell saw January as a month to be endured rather than enjoyed.
A historian analyzes how White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s claims about her boss and his administration are ‘doublespeak’ straight out of the pages of George Orwell’s ‘1984.’
80 years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of Orwell’s predictions have come true.
China’s recent shows of strength and solidarity with Russia and North Korea have prompted speculation of a global changing of the guard.
George Orwell, the author of two classic anti-totalitarian, pro-freedom novels from the 1940s, was a democratic socialist who opposed authoritarian leaders of the left and the right.
Donald Trump aims to rewrite America’s official history, including at one of the nation’s key sites of public history-making: the Smithsonian. George Orwell would recognize Trump’s impulse.
Orwell wrote his short, shocking novel at a time when it was considered scientifically inadmissible for animals to be granted thoughts or even feelings.
Animal Farm is a melancholy reflection on the corruption of revolution – and the need to keep looking for a better one.
Canada has proven more resilient than even some of its founders might have anticipated, but not for lack of effort. There will always remain the work of building a better nation.
Nineteen Eighty-Four filled with references to sinking ships, drowning people and the dread of oceanic engulfment
Donald Trump aims to rewrite America’s official history. George Orwell − who wrote, ‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.“ − would recognize that impulse.
In an era when all sorts of systems of control limit our freedoms, many don’t quite fit the template that Orwell or Huxley imagined – but combine elements of both.
Withdrawing support for research and scrubbing climate data from US government websites has repercussions for Australia and the world. But there are ways around it.
What’s happening now in Washington, DC, is different from most presidential transitions − in volume, pace, content and breadth of the changes ordered.
AI safety has taken a back seat in the competition for ever more powerful large language models.
Julia offers contemporary readers new ways of thinking about Orwell’s novel.
Waters’ hard and unyielding approach to modern politics has resulted in longstanding elements of his stagecraft becoming contentious.
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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, Wayne State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of History, American University
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Adjunct professor, UNSW
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Upcoming IASH Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the University of Edinburgh and Associate Fellow of English and Comparative Literary Studies & Honorary Research Fellow of IAS, University of Warwick
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Professor, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Professor of Chinese and World History, University of California, Irvine
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Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer and Teacher, Department of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University
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Intermittent Lecturer I in Information, University of Michigan
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University
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Dean of the Reed College of Media, West Virginia University
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Oregon
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Pretoria