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The best deportations are self-deportations. And the closure of Broadacres is one example of why many illegal immigrants are ...

I have watched with bemusement as some Democrats have excused, justified or otherwise supported the so-called “peaceful protests” in Los Angeles and elsewhere around the country.

The only difference between what happened on Jan 6 and what happened during BLM and what is now happening in L.A. is there ...

Many have criticized that President Trump is not a bookworm. I disagree since he must have studied George Orwell’s “1984” as an instruction guide to his presidency. Here are the parallels ...

When George Orwell introduced the descriptive word, doublespeak, into the glossary of totalitarian terms in his book “1984,” he echoed the practices of rising authoritarian states.

George Orwell prefigured our modern America I am sure that “Animal Farm,” by George Orwell, is on the hit list of the book banners. It portrays what is happening right now, here, in real life.

Do you recall “Newspeak” and “Doublespeak” in George Orwell’s novel 1984? It was the language of the authoritarian government of Oceania designed to limit the ability of the populace to ...

Orwell’s perennially relevant dystopian novel is a condemnation of the Soviet Union’s embrace of Stalinism and the censorship and “double speak” of Nazi Germany.

As 2024 draws to a close, we are now coming to the end of being 40 years on from the title of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four novel. Published in 1949, it was Orwell's ninth and final book ...

In this sense, the concept of ‘doublespeak’ builds upon Orwell's earlier essay, ‘Politics and the English Language’ of 1946, which discusses how political language often serves to distort ...