“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors ...

In its obsessions with thought control and with having the state control and sexualize children, today’s political Left is effectuating precisely what the two seminal, anti-totalitarian novels of the ...

Siraj Wahhaj and the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing . . . Again Audio By Carbonatix Our friend Ross Douthat’s latest column looks at the curious combination of anomie, social atomization, and sexual ...

So which dystopia are we living in? Most educated people have read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” So influential have these books been that we are ...

One question posed by Neil Postman in his Amusing Ourselves To Death is who got it right - Orwell or Huxley? Basically, will we be more damaged by what we love or what we hate? With X Factor and the ...

In 1948, Richard Weaver told us that ideas have consequences. A few short years earlier, Hitler said, “let me control the textbooks and I will control the State.” Huxley and Orwell followed and warned ...

The amount of hyphens in the title of a research paper has a direct effect on the number of times it's cited. The more hyphens in the title, the less likely it was to be cited. Our fears were wrong – ...

In “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell excoriated clichés, writing that “there is a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they ...

One question posed by Neil Postman in his Amusing Ourselves To Death is who got it right - Orwell or Huxley? Basically, will we be more damaged by what we love or what we hate? With X Factor and the ...