August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks ...

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George Orwell is a widely read and taught dystopian novel, dealing heavily with themes of censorship and government ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s reported ban on climate-related terms echoes Orwell’s 1984, revealing how language control ...

If you read Orwell’s book “1984,” you’ll better understand where we’re headed today. The book was published in 1949, four years after the end of World War II. He wrote it as a warning against the rise ...

Try this quiz about the bookish influences on Homer Simpson, Kate Bush and others to see how many connections you know.

Michael Shelden, a Dean’s Research Professor, and a renowned biographer who has written about George Orwell, Winston ...

Commentary: The idea of a benign, all-knowing leader looking out for our best interests on our behalf sounds good, but no ...

No need to crack open a can of surströmming to pair nicely with 1984, because the book is bound completely shut!

Whisky brought me to the Hebrides, both Inner, around Scotland’s southwestern coast, and Outer, extending westward and ...

IN A bizarre hearing at the Isle of Wight law courts, a defendant told magistrates he had been smoking cannabis since he was ...

The loss of data has been extensive, and the consequences will be devastating to everything from Social Security to climate ...