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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

This was another fabulous year for “newspeak,” a language primarily spoken within TV newscasts, political debate and by government officials. It’s a language that, if we spoke it, we’d clear the room ...