Eighty years ago, George Orwell made his first impact on American letters, interestingly enough, not with his bombshell attack on…
Some complain that “Orwellian” has become the most overused phrase in current political discourse, but I beg to disagree. Although…
The first sentence of my intellectual biography of National Review’s co-founder read: “James Burnham began his intellectual career in the…
As 2024 comes to a close, I’ve thought a lot over the past year about another year: 1984. Yes, 1984….
Community organizer and left-wing social activist Saul Alinsky wrote, in his 1971 book Rules for Radicals, that “he who controls…
Language is linked with thought. We talk about the things we think about. Thought is private. Others can only guess…
American Spectator senior editor Daniel Flynn published an essay for the Acton Institute today to mark the 73rd anniversary of…
President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was confirmed by the Senate Thursday, shocked many…
Winston Smith of Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwellian fame identified Newspeak as both false and absurd — until he didn’t. “War is…
