The presidential election is eight months away. Yet the campaign to preclude a second Trump administration is already in high gear. In the course of two weeks, the public was given a preview of the ...

Some of my favorite books are dystopian novels — stories of future worlds that see themselves as utopian, but are in fact nightmarish perversions of society. Dystopias are often characterized by ...

In his novel “1984,” George Orwell created a term “Newspeak,” a language that was imposed by Big Brother for the purpose of diminishing the range of thought. That perfectly describes what recently ...

The title is taken from George Orwell's dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which Newspeak is "the only language in the world whose vocabulary is getting smaller every year". There are times – ...

Did President Obama lie to the American people when he said that those who liked their current health insurance policies could keep them? Or was he simply out of the loop when it came down to the ...

Will America ever return to some degree of stable political normalcy following President Donald Trump’s reign of malevolent misconduct? Will the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election mark the end of the ...

When what you are saying is so obviously at odds with the plain truth, it is useful to choose your words carefully to obscure this fact. This was the strategy of the Ministry of Truth, the propaganda ...

- The writer is political scientist and author of Islamo-psychose [Islamo-psychosis], Fayard Publishing, 2017. In the 2017 French presidential election, Marine Le Pen reached a new high by garnering ...

George Orwell’s nightmarish vision of the future in his novel “1984” didn’t end on its last page. For it left behind a whole language with its own rules, vocabulary, purpose, and still continuing ...