George Orwell

...of low-income students with debt they'll never pay off. By Stephen Burd How a million surveillance cameras in London are proving George Orwell wrong. The best recent memoir from republican Washington is a hoax. That should tell you...

In this article: Trent Franks, Medicare, Washington, GOP, and U.S. House

...array of books. Vampire Academy by Rachel Mead, which has been a New York Times best-selling series, another print run of George Orwell's 1984 and Harlequin Mills & Boon's His Valentine Seduction. Printing plates carrying the word of the...

In this article: Dymocks, Australia, Unemployment, and Book of Luke

...can remember politicians have specialised in evading answers to direct questions and putting the best spin on the truth. As George Orwell put it in 1946, political discourse "is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable...

In this article: Kevin Rudd, Jon Faine, James Landale, Neil Mitchell, and Tony Blair

...is deficit-neutral--somehow or other adds an unacceptable debt burden to future generations. We truly live in a world only George Orwell could comprehend when our elected representatives so easily conflate one with the other. Of...

In this article: Medicare, Trent Franks, Butch Otter, Nick Smith, Bruce Bartlett, and Ernest Istook

...or the size of the ROTC program on campus, he said. "We don't demand," he said, "any intentional assessment of our life at Notre Dame." George Orwell We encourage your comments, but we ask that you keep them civil and appropriate.

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...is sponsored by the From Us with Love charity. Be sure to donate!) After the break, we get to some voice mails about how George Orwell's dystopian future may already be here. That means it may be a normal thing this time next year for...

In this article: Bacon, Hypochondriac, Cycle of poverty, Big Brother, Homeless World Cup, Itunes, and Nintendo

...characterise the creations of this world-famous author". Yet as the British Empire fell, so did his reputation, being castigated by George Orwell as a "jingo imperialist". He is not the only one whose literary stock has risen and fallen...

In this article: Rudyard Kipling, Nobel Prize for Literature, Enid Blyton, British Airways, and Neil Gaiman

...such as football will turn him into Taoiseach Trendy is missing the point. Bertie didn't go on video Big Brother-style (George Orwell not Channel 4) to talk about football; he yakked about it in doorstep interviews, with the public on...

In this article: Gordon Brown, Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach, YouTube, Big Brother, British-Irish Council, and Fianna Fail

...detractors of her populist style and moose-hunting bravado by claiming she was a voracious reader in her youth who lapped up George Orwell and John Steinbeck. Mrs Palin reveals her anguish when the pregnancy of her teenage daughter,...

In this article: Sarah Palin, John McCain, Katie Couric, John Steinbeck, Bristol, Down's Syndrome, and Depression

...history by consigning offending news items to an incinerator chute known as the memory hole. Orwell's technological vision may have been primitive, but he seems to have predicted something fundamental about the dangers of information...

In this article: Amazon.com, PayPal, EBay, Revenue, Zappos, Web-based, Asia, Wal-Mart, and 1984