World politicsfromThe Nation3 months agoTrump's Deranged Land Grabs Would Make Sense to Big BrotherOrwell's depiction of mass hatred in 1984 serves as a warning against the perils of propaganda and the manipulation of public emotion.
US politicsfromwww.nytimes.com4 months agoWe Are All Living in George Orwell's World NowVice President JD Vance criticized European criminalization of far-right speech as Orwellian, urging the U.S. to resist similar trends.
fromThe Atlantic5 months agoDeletion Is PropagandaMemory holes may destroy words rather than churn out new ones, but they are extensions of the Party's insistence that 'WAR IS PEACE' and 'IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.' They turn absence into a claim of power.Artificial intelligence
UK newsfromwww.theguardian.com5 months agoIt allowed us to survive, to not go mad': the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communismA hidden Polish edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four symbolizes resistance against censorship in communist Poland.