There’s nothing new about calling George Orwell’s most influential novel prescient. But the focus has usually been on his ...

Having failed to convince people that Donald Trump is Hitler, will leftists now try to persuade people that Mr. Trump is worse than Stalin? The question arises as a classic critique of Soviet ...

Jordan Peterson often invokes George Orwell as a defender of “Western values” — but a closer look at Orwell’s life and writing tells a very different story. This video unpacks how Orwell’s most famous ...

Readers of Huxley’s Brave New World will find glimmers of that book’s dark humor and sterling powers of observation in this stellar 1923 lampoon of English intellectualism after WWI. Protagonist ...

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In the new documentary “Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5,” filmmaker Raoul Peck explores the writer George Orwell’s life and how his experiences informed his ideas and his writing. The film intersperses clips from ...