The 1949 novel, 1984, painted a cautionary picture of a hypervigilant, totalitarian society and a distant future reflective ...

From their first time reading Orwell's "1984" to what the term "Orwellian" means, five authors share thoughts on censorship ...

“If we begin to feel that we’re being surveilled all the time, our behavior changes. We begin to do less. We begin to think about things less. We begin to modify how we think.” – Tim Cook The English ...

Orwell himself could be sentimental about his longing to escape (“Thinking always of my island in the Hebrides,” he’d once written in his wartime diary) or wonderfully blunt. In the aftermath of ...

If having to pay an entry fee to visit Karl Marx’s grave wasn’t enough irony for this week, it’s now emerged that George Orwell’s estate is allegedly issuing takedown requests for people trying to ...

The Orwellian dystopia has become a “worst-case scenario” in the realm of technological advancements, but one cannot help but wonder if we have taken steps in a similar direction already. Our 2024 isn ...

Americans still read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949. At the time, the year 1984 was far in the future — now it’s 40 years in the past.

George Orwell was dying when he wrote 1984 in the late 1940s on the desolate Isle of Jura in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. Tuberculosis ravaged his body, and typing thousands of words a day only weakened ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Add Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn to the list of American politicians who need a George Orwell refresher. Chances are, you've ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has been 76 years since "1984," George Orwell's warning about government control, censorship and the corruption of language, ...