George Orwell

Media: Buy Us!

Steven Weber | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Mainstream Media, Media Criticism, Media, Presidential Election, Media Bias, George Orwell, Media News
Steven Weber

The joke is, of course, any amount of digging will eventually reveal a very different truth than the one packaged and sold by the media masters, one in which the intellectual and social welfare (ahem) of the citizenry is the last thing on their greedy little minds.

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The Politics of The Hunger Games

Michael Wallach | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games Movie, District 12, The Matrix, George Orwell, Catniss, Daphne Guinness, Culture News
Michael Wallach

What is the meaning of this shot? Why end the film there? Certainly, the new Lionsgate-Summit Entertainment conglomerate hopes to continue the tension between these characters to entice us into a sequel; but what is this tension made of?

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Tim Robbins Ditches TV

AP | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: 1984, Video, George Orwell, George Orwell 1984, Tim Robbins Television, Tim Robbins 1984, Tim Robbins, Celebrity News

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins says his experience directing a play based on George Orwell's "1984" has prompted a life c...

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New '1984' Adaptation In The Works

Posted 05.22.2012

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Has "The Hunger Games" inspired a surge of dystopian movies? According to the Hollywood Reporter, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainme...

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George Lois's Innovation Bible 'Damn Good Advice'

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Creativity, Artist Guide, Start-Ups, Design, Artist Advice, George Lois, Ad, Entrepreneurs, Innovation, Guernica, Picasso, Banksy, George Orwell, Mtv, Esquire, Andrea Chalupa, Satire, Designers, Branding, Artist, Innovation Advice, Innovation Guide, Slidepollajax, Damn Good Advice for People With Talent, Books News
Andrea Chalupa

Long considered a legend for giving Esquire's covers in the sixties the force of Picasso's "Guernica," Lois shares his 120 commandments for creativity in Damn Good Advice (for people with talent!).

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What Do You Conform To?

Rabbi Josh Feigelson | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Ask Big Questions, Non-Conformity, George Orwell, Jewish, Conformity, To Conform, Do Not Conform, Conform, Emotional Intelligence, To Conform With, Conform With, Healthy Living News
Rabbi Josh Feigelson

Conforming has gotten a bad rap of late. Well, not really of late. More like of the last few hundred years.

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The History Of Animals In Art, Literature And Music

Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Winnie the Pooh, Sergei Prokofiev, T. S. Eliot, Morgan Library, Virginia Woolf, In the Company of Animals Morgan Library, Biblical Art, E. B. White, John James Audubon, David Hockney, George Orwell, Albrecht Dürer, Ted Hughes, Peter Paul Rubens, William Blake, Babar, Arts News

The Morgan Library is exhibiting a collection of works illustrating how history's greatest artists, writers and musicians were inspired by animals. ...

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Moscow or Beijing?

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Authoritarianism, The New Yorker, Hu Jintao, George Orwell, Beijing, Moscow, Russia, Aldous Huxley, China, Putin, World News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom

2012 begins with the Russian and Chinese constellations once again falling into alignment.

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An 'Animal Farm' Enters the Annals of US Border Enforcement

Gabriel Schivone | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Illegal Immigration, US-Mexico Border, Border Patrol, Undocumented Migrants, Illegal Immigrants, Border, Mexican Immigrants, Immigration and Border Enforcement Policy, George Orwell, Prison Divestment, Detention and Removal, Deportation, Border Militarization, Latino Voices News
Gabriel Schivone

The federal deployment of horses to the border is creating a rodeo of dramatic irony that would assail even the imagination of classic satirist George Orwell.

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Kay on Havel, Orwell and the Greengrocer

Robert Teitelman | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Robert Teitelman, John Kay, Vaclav Havel, George Orwell, North Korea, Soviet Era, Christopher Hitchens, Media News
Robert Teitelman

John Kay has a characteristically graceful little column today in the Financial Times that opens up new vistas rather than slams doors shut. This is rare and worth an end-of-the-year comment or two.

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Tracking Vaclav Havel: From Orwell To Vermont And Into Prague

Lucas Kavner | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Communism, Christopher Hitchens, Vaclav Havel, The Memorandum, Prague Spring, Middlebury College, Czech Republic, Democracy, Why Orwell Matters, Prague, Forum 2000, George Orwell, Hitchens Orwell, Culture News
Lucas Kavner

This past week we lost a writer and a major intellectual, and we lost a brutal, confounding dictator. We also lost a playwright, a rebel, a rockstar, a chain-smoker, a renowned artist, a non-profit leader, and one of the most beloved presidents in history.

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The Folie De Grandeur of Rogue Traders

Robert Lenzner | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: John Gapper, Daniel Kahneman, George Orwell, Societe Generale, Going Rogue, Books News
Robert Lenzner

Listen up! I have just finished reading the brilliant, fast-paced How To Be A Rogue Trader in global finance by the prize-winning Associate Editor of the Financial Times, John Gapper and hereby recommend it as required reading, ASAP.

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Where Is George Orwell When We Need Him?

Fred Wertheimer | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Fec, Law, Karl Rove, Campaign Finance Reform, American Crossroads, Federal Election Commission, George Orwell, Campaign Finance, Elections 2012, Politics News
Fred Wertheimer

American Crossroads and the FEC are living in fantasy land and neither the FEC regulation nor the American Crossroads Advisory Opinion Request can stand the light of day.

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Behind The Snarking About OWS

Jim Sleeper | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Financial TImes, Martin Wolf, Zuccotti Park, Animal Farm, George Orwell, New York Magazine, Ows, Media News
Jim Sleeper

Republican presidential debates, and even "liberal" magazines' online comment threads, are drawing hundreds eager to rail at clueless dissenters, especially if they can catch them bickering with one another.

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The Return of the English Morality Tale?

Mark Donne | Posted 01.14.2012

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Mark Donne

As I write, the saints and apostles of St Pauls Cathedral are looking down on several hundred people with just as much moral purpose as they ever possessed.

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A Dearth of Mirth at the End of Many Great Novels

Dave Astor | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Unhappy Endings, Wilkie Collins, Classic Novels, The House of Mirth, George Orwell, Novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley, Herman Melville, Charlotte Bronte, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News
Dave Astor

After just finishing The House of Mirth, I'm reminded once again that many great novels don't have happy endings.

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Andrew Losowsky

Prisoners Sue For Access To Books

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Losowsky | Posted 12.02.2011

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When Mark Melvin asked his friend to order him a Pulitzer Prize-winning history book, he didn't expect to have to file a lawsuit in order to read it. ...

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Patriotism vs. Nationalism in a Post 9/11 World

Grant Lyon | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Winston Churchill, Nationalism, American Revolution, Fundamentalism, Islam, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamaphobia, Bill of Rights, Troops, George Orwell, 9/11 Anniversary, Yankee Doodle Dandy, 9/11, Fbi, Freedom of Religion, Sikhism, 9/11 Memorial, Patriotism, Westboro Baptist Church, American Flag, Socialism, Muslim, National Anthem, Gettysburg Address, September 11 Anniversary, Comedy News
Grant Lyon

If you believe in freedom of religion but don't understand the irony behind your anger at a mosque being built near ground zero, then you are the number one culprit of dumb nationalism in 2011.

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Norway Killer Lists Favorite Music, Books And Video Games

Posted 09.24.2011

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In the wake of last week's bombing and massacre in Oslo, Norway, its perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik has come under intense scrutiny. Breivik enume...

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Fulfilling Orwell's Prophecy: 15 Futuristic Films You Should See

John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: 1984, Futuristic Films, George Orwell, Fahrenheit 451, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dystopian Films, Thx 1138, Blade Runner, Film, The Matrix, Planet of the Apes, Big Brother, A Clockwork Orange, Entertainment News
John W. Whitehead

For years, novels and movies have warned us about the ominous future that we face. In fact, film may be the best representation of what we now face as a society that is fulfilling Orwell's prophecy.

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10 Favorite Books By Pseudonymous Writers

The Daily Beast | Posted 09.13.2011

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From George Orwell to Patricia Highsmith, 10 great books written by pseudonymous authors. Carmela Ciuraru, author of Nom de Plume: A Secret History of...

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News of the World bows out by Misrepresenting George Orwell

Max Atkinson | Posted 09.09.2011

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Max Atkinson

The final editorial of the final edition of the News of the World began by making out that George Orwell was a fan of the newspaper. In case you misse...

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Was George Orwell A Fan Of The News Of The World?

BBC News | Tom De Castella | Posted 09.10.2011

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In its final issue, the News of the World made much of a 1946 George Orwell essay in which the great writer had namechecked it. But was the Animal Far...

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PHOTOS: 9 Reasons Why You Should Use a Pseudonym

Carmela Ciuraru | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Fernando Pessoa, Pseudonyms. O. Henry, Nom De Plume, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, Pauline Reage, Patricia Highsmith, Mark Twain, George Sand, Books News
Carmela Ciuraru

It's true that George Eliot and Charlotte Bronte used male pen names so that their work would be taken seriously (and so they could publish at all).

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Tonally Inappropriate Book Covers

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.06.2011

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Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but um, we kind of do it all the time. In fact, half the fun of that anachroni...

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