George Orwell

We are the Thought Police We are the Thought Police

Orwell's Big Brother never showed up. Instead of centralized Iraq war propaganda, we have an America in which the public and the press jointly impose their own controls.
  • When is a military dictator a freedom fighter?

    When war is peace and ignorance is strength. A selection from "The Collected Works of George Bush."
  • Orwell's Burmese days

    A new book ventures to an impenetrable corner of the world to show how Burma shaped one of the 20th century's most important writers.
  • Three cheers for the Surveillance Society!

    In the brave new future, Big Brother will watch our every move. But that's OK, because we'll be watching him too.
  • Homage to Blogalonia

    George Orwell's wartime columns have much in common with today's blogs: They were often trivial and idiosyncratic, but bore within them the seeds of something greater.
  • George W. Bush, the doubleplusgood doublespeaker!

    In his interview on "Meet the Press," the president proved he has mastered the Orwellian art of duckspeak.
  • A national state of confusion

    The Bush propaganda machine has convinced Americans that Saddam and the no-longer-mentioned Osama are the same person -- and the polls prove it.
  • "Bringing faith to the West Wing" and "Base language"

    Readers react to Salon's coverage of Bush's faith-based charities plan.
  • "Orwell" by Jeffrey Meyers

    The new biography glosses over the defiant, troubled life of the eerily prescient author of "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four."
  • Letters to the Editor

    TNT exec defends "Animal Farm" ad and film; adventurous travelers should be prepared for the worst; "open-source journalism" dates back to Oklahoma City bombing.
  • Pig in the Gulag

    An ad for the made-for-TV movie "Animal Farm" gives a whole new meaning to the word "Orwellian."
  • Polite literature

    Strunk and White's much-revered "The Elements of Style" has sapped the life from American writing.
  • How to get behind in advertising

    Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter shun middle-class mediocrity in, 'A Merry War,' the film adaptation of George Orwell's 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying'.
  • Newsreal: Bigger than the pope

    A British investigative reporter who has written about the International Olympic Committee shows how the head of the IOC tries to prove, as he once said, that the IOC is more powerful than the Catholic Church.

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