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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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  • Husbands Are Not the Enemy

    Husbands Are Not the Enemy0

    In the wake of a cascade of articles from the New York Times celebrating January’s Women’s March as a stirring symbol of feminist empowerment—as demonstrated by pussy hats, profane placards, unhinged celebrity poetry, and the rejection of pro-life women—that same paper hit a new low in the blatant bashing of American manhood. The Times’ Nicholas

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  • Husband and wife split the chores? Divorce is more likely.

    Husband and wife split the chores? Divorce is more likely.0

    A while back, Medical Daily reported on a Norwegian study of couples to see “how married and cohabiting men and women divided housework and childcare throughout various life stages.” It might make a few heads explode. “Couples may be better off living in a ‘traditional’ household where women do all the housework if they want

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