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  • The Fruits of Freedom: Barbara Feigin’s ‘My American Dream’

    The Fruits of Freedom: Barbara Feigin’s ‘My American Dream’0

    In her recently published memoir My American Dream: A Journey From Fascism to Freedom, Barbara Sommer Feigin begins by recounting her escape in 1940 as a 2-year-old from Nazi Germany to the United States. She recreates this trek, which ran from Europe across Russia to Japan and then to America, using a journal her father

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  • Murdering Meaning: The Verbicide of Contemporary America

    Murdering Meaning: The Verbicide of Contemporary America8

    In George Orwell’s 1984 are dichotomies now familiar to many Americans: “War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.” Inscribed on the outside of the white, pyramid-shaped Ministry of Truth, this is the motto of Oceania, a nation governed by “The Party.” The Party designed these slogans to obfuscate the meaning of words, thereby

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