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Oscar Wilde: Wanting to Be Left Alone Is Not ‘Selfishness’0
- Literature
- May 10, 2016
Confession: Oscar Wilde is one of my favorite writers. Though he was what Dostoevsky would have described as “a dedicated sensualist,” Wilde possessed a true creative genius perhaps unmatched among his literary contemporaries. His essay “The Soul of Man under Socialism” is not, in my opinion, his best work. Written in 1891, it’s largely a
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Orwell’s ‘1984’: How to Misread a Classic0
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- June 10, 2019
June 8, 2019, marks the 70th anniversary of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. There will be no shortage of think pieces that will misinterpret its legacy. They will focus on social media, security cameras, data collection, and “fake news.” The problem? The novel was not a commentary on the downside of technology. It was meant
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Orwell’s “1984” One of the Bestsellers in Russia in 20150
- Politics
- December 30, 2015
Under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, some have accused Russia of slipping back toward totalitarianism. Which is why some news outlets see significance in the fact that George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel 1984 was one of the bestselling books in Russia this past year. Paul Gobel at the blog Window on Eurasia writes, “Russians
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Orwell’s ‘Coming Up for Air’ Is Prophetic for Our Times0
- Literature
- December 30, 2020
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Orwell: ‘History Stopped in 1936’ (and Everything Since Is Propaganda)0
- History
- October 16, 2017
Most people are familiar with the plot of the The Matrix. The 1999 film portrays a dystopian future where the “reality” that people inhabit is actually a simulation created by machines intent on subjugating the human race. The film has continued to resonate with many people because of a growing sense that our modern world
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Orwell on Why Politicians Resort to Euphemisms0
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- July 11, 2016
As a few of my colleagues have noted in the past, today’s academic writing is one big farce. Rather than express their ideas in a clear, straightforward way, academics seem to believe they can only prove their intellectual ability by stringing together sentences of pompous words. Unfortunately, the general public furthers this practice by behaving
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