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...
Bob Burnett | Posted 03.30.2012
Sixty-three years ago, Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 turned out to be prophetic. Will that be true of The Hunger Games? Decide for yourself and "May the odds be ever in your favor."
Posted 05.22.2012
Has "The Hunger Games" inspired a surge of dystopian movies? According to the Hollywood Reporter, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainme...
The Huffington Post | Ramona Emerson | Posted 03.05.2012
Apple's famed "1984" ad, which introduced Apple's Macintosh computer for the first time, is one of the most famous TV commercials of all time. The...
Michele Weldon | Posted 02.07.2012
Digital shaming has become the newest form of public stocks, ensuring the wrongdoings of individuals are widely known and impossible to erase.
Simran Jeet Singh | Posted 01.03.2012
To be totally honest, I don't totally buy into the whole nationalism thing. While it allows us to connect with others who belong to the same group, it also causes us to distinguish ourselves from people of other groups.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.18.2011
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.
Scott Cleland | Posted 07.23.2011
What's wrong with being tracked by Google as a target? Consider that Google's private information on users has already fallen into the wrong hands.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011
Every Orwellian campaign needs a compliant press, and the Social Security Slashers led by Pete Peterson have been particularly lucky (or effective) in this area.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011
George Orwell would be proud. The latest Washington catchphrase deserves a place of honor in the 1984 lexicon, right between "War Is Peace" and "Love...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
In a police state, citizens live in fear of the police monitoring them. But what do you call it when the police themselves know that at any time or place while they are performing their duties, the citizens could be monitoring them?
The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 09.26.2011
Author François Mauriac once said, "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what ...
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011
The war in Afghanistan is about perpetual war, not Afghanistan. It's about preventing democracy in the United States, not bringing it to Southwest ...
Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011
Orwell's "1984" was twenty-six years off target, and picked the wrong side of the capitalistic coin. The Koch brothers are Big Brother, and the millio...
Telegraph | Bonnie Malkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Paul Hol, a volunteer for the charity Lifeline, found the book when he was sorting through the pile of donations. "It's in a remarkably good condition...
Dan Wilbur | Posted 05.25.2011
"Lolita," for instance, is now "Likable Rapists." It makes you think that perhaps these new titles are what censors out there really see.
Kyle Shamberg | Posted 05.25.2011
The never-ending carousel of pro sports gives us a never-ending soma to throw back. MNF is only the most obvious, and the grandest spectacle, of the drug.
The Millions | Posted 05.25.2011
George Orwell never thought that his work would outlive him by much. After all, he considered himself "a sort of pamphleteer" rather than a genuine no...
John Brown | Posted 11.17.2011
There's a dirty little secret in America today: all too many of our young people, whatever their biological age may be, can't speak.
Ali MacLean | Posted 05.25.2011
3:00 pm: Ali has just 'checked in' to Dr. Finkelstein's OBGYN office on Wilshire Boulevard. 3:33 pm: Dr. Finkelstein has just checked into Ali.
Eric Shutt | Posted 05.25.2011
Super Bowl commercials are iconic American culture. Ads tell us a ton about what's up, right now, and thanks to social media, we can rate and evaluate Super Bowl ads in more ways.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
When we talk about willpower or integrity, we tend to mean a certain fixed amount of some kind of moral stamina. It's not like that. Breaking points can be attenuated by a variety of factors.
Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011
Instead of focusing on books that were published this year, how about focusing on years that have been published as books?
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
1. Shelf no meaning. Shelf no nirvana or nonduality. If you got "it" now, share "it" now. That's the Law of Now! 2. Let the store-keeper save what fe...
John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011
The Republicans' strategy of slowing down change couldn't be more evident than in the perpetually extending health care debate. But they have been successful at promulgating the idea that they, too, are touting change.
AP | Posted 04.03.2012