Jump to 2025 and the term "Newspeak" is appropriate for a portion of Trump's administration. Despite Trump claiming to be the ...

The Village Voice review of "The Assessment" points out that Fleur Fortune's film imagines government agents acting like impulsive toddlers.

Four is a warning about political repression, historical revisionism, mass surveillance, propaganda, censorship, and the ...

On June 4, 2024, an op-ed I penned (Project 2025’s threat to democracy) was published in The Fulcrum, a national bipartisan ...

A reader would like you to know that the correct response is to apologise not thank him when he waits for your dog to vacate the vicinity.

For many years after I first read George Orwell’s 1949 masterwork, 1984, I leaned eagerly into current events, trying to discern if the writer’s dystopian vision of the future was likely to be ...

Since his return to the White House, Donald Trump has governed not just by executive orders, but also by imposing certain words and looking to strike out others, in what can be likened to a ...