Tag: George Orwell

Back in September, two months before losing the election to Joe Biden, when Donald Trump was repeating the fallacy either he win the election...

In the country of Oceania, the setting of George Orwell's prescient 1949 novel 1984, the Ministry of Truth is charged with the role of...

Donald Trump's admiration for dictatorial rhetoric, posturing, and politics has caused some to speculate whether we actually could be dealing with a inchoate authoritarian. After all, he...

In 2015, when still a candidate for president, Donald Trump promised that, when elected, he would assemble a deportation force. Few were taking him seriously...

"Vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based," and "science-based." These are terms the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are reportedly prohibited from using in any official...

Perhaps people thought it was "fake news." Two years ago, an article appeared in the Miami Herald about Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials being barred from using...

Two years ago, either during or shortly before I began teaching a unit on George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984, I came across an article about...

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains references to both the book and film titled 1984.  As technology becomes more ubiquitous, and surveillance (both from government and...

In 1949, George Orwell published one of the best pieces of dystopian fiction of the century. When I saw Trump getting sworn in, it...

He calls himself ?the king of Silicon Valley,? owns a $130 million yacht, and brags that his designer wristwatch costs more than ?a six-pack...