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  • Hypocrisy: 3 Telltale Signs of it

    Hypocrisy: 3 Telltale Signs of it0

    Hosting the Academy Awards Jimmy Kimmel found time for these conciliatory words:  “There are millions and millions of people watching right now and if every one of you took a minute to reach out to the person you disagree with, someone you like, and have one positive, considerate conversation, not as liberals or conservatives, but

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  • Hypocrisy American Style

    Hypocrisy American Style0

    In her online article “Systemic Hypocrisy,” Judith Bergman looks at those major corporations that use Chinese labor to make their products, or that have ties to China in other ways. These corporations are giving millions of dollars to groups which seek to end racism in the United States – like Black Lives Matter – while

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  • Huxley’s Disturbing Prophecy

    Huxley’s Disturbing Prophecy0

    A decade and half after the publication of Brave New World (1931), Aldous Huxley penned a foreword to his magnum opus that has attracted relatively little attention. Written shortly after the conclusion of the Second World War, the article is fascinating in both its frenetic pace and bold conclusions, some of which appear prescient, others

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  • Huxley: Brave New World “Coming True Sooner Than I Thought”

    Huxley: Brave New World “Coming True Sooner Than I Thought”0

    In 1931, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World—a dystopian novel imagining a future in which people live in a highly organized society that they are conditioned to accept. In 1958, in Brave New World Revisited, he looked back on his novel and reflected on how accurate its predictions of the future had been (you can read the

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  • Huxley Predicted the Future of Education

    Huxley Predicted the Future of Education0

    Sensible and reasonable people often disagree on the purpose of education.  As we’ve seen, men as renowned as Cicero and Benjamin Franklin believed the primary purpose of education was to build character and virtue in pupils. Moral education of this kind is likely to be palatable to most people—at least when a society enjoys general homogeneity

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  • Huxley in Letter to Orwell: My Book Was Right

    Huxley in Letter to Orwell: My Book Was Right0

    Aldous Huxley and George Orwell wrote arguably the two most popular novels portending the West’s dystopian future.  For decades, thinkers have opined on which of the two starkly distinct totalitarian nightmares–that of Huxley’s Brave New World or Orwell’s 1984–was more likely to come to pass (or, as some contend, had come to pass).  What has garnered rather little

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