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  • 1984 Interview Explains the ‘Ideological Subversion’ of America

    1984 Interview Explains the ‘Ideological Subversion’ of America1

    “Maybe we’ll wake up and this will all be a bad dream.” I think that’s the sentiment of many these days. Our world seemingly changed overnight and many of us just long to go back to the piddly struggle of getting up every day to drive to work. The trouble is, it’s unlikely we’re going

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  • 1984 in 2024: Orwell Was Right

    1984 in 2024: Orwell Was Right1

    Americans still read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949. At the time, the year 1984 was far in the future; now it’s 40 years in the past. Yet our present feels more than ever like Orwell’s dystopia. The novel is set on Airstrip One, a totalitarian

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  • 1945 Orwell Essay: A Description of Modern America?

    1945 Orwell Essay: A Description of Modern America?0

    I’m a huge sucker for the 4th of July. You name it: flags, Americana music, historical trivia – I revel in almost anything patriotic. But while the love for one’s country is a commendable quality, can it sometimes be taken to an extreme? Can it squelch rational thought and objective reasoning? This question came to me

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  • 1939 vs. 2008: What do men and women want in marriage?

    1939 vs. 2008: What do men and women want in marriage?0

    Oxford educated economist Max Roser published an interesting—and telling—chart on Twitter recently. Roser, the founder of Our World Data, analyzed the top 18 traits men and women valued in their partners and compared them cross-generationally, from 1939 to 2008. The following values were identified as important and ranked by men or women: Mutual attraction, Dependable

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  • 19 Quotes from Historic Figures That Will Make You Uncomfortable

    19 Quotes from Historic Figures That Will Make You Uncomfortable0

    1. Woodrow Wilson on the rise of the KKK “The white men were aroused by a mere instinct of self-preservation — until at last there sprung into existence a great Kuklux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.” – Wilson in A History of the American People (1902) 2. Abraham

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  • 1899 Insurance Co.: No Insurance for ‘Intemperate or Immoral’ People

    1899 Insurance Co.: No Insurance for ‘Intemperate or Immoral’ People0

    If you’re looking for an illustration as to how much we’ve changed in the last 100 or so years, take a look at this list of instructions for medical examiners from the Manhattan Life Insurance Company of New York. The document, published in 1899, is basically a dull litany of things medical examiners should do

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