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May 6, 2026
George Orwell’s timeless classic Animal Farm, a “fairy story” aimed at young readers, has sold some 11 million copies worldwide since it was first published in...
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Mar 30, 2026
George Orwell, in his immortal 1946 essay "The Prevention of Literature," delineates a distinction between two types of attackers of intellectual freedom, both real but one in a...
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Mar 24, 2026
In The Image, his landmark 1962 book about how mass media was warping American life, historian Daniel Boorstin coined the term pseudo-event to describe something that...
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Mar 4, 2026
There is a famous quote attributed to Leon Trotsky to the effect of: “You may not be interested in the war, but war is interested in you.”
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Feb 18, 2026
“Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien,” wrote Voltaire, usually translated to “the perfect is the enemy of the good,” and more often rendered in the imperative...