George Orwell

...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 something.

In this article: Tax, Lamar Alexander, GOP, White House, Nancy Pelosi, John Thune, House Ways and Means Committee, Washington, and Joint Committee on Taxation

By the Editors How a million surveillance cameras in London are proving George Orwell wrong. With help from Washington, the for-profit college industry is loading up millions of low-income students with debt they'll never pay off. The...

In this article: Bart Stupak, Washington, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Brad Ellsworth, White House, London, and Michigan

...who writes, "The House Financial Services Committee this week approved an amendment to the Investor Protection Act of 2009 - a name George Orwell would appreciate - to allow most companies to never comply with the law, and mandating a study to...

In this article: Unemployment, Paul Krugman, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Brad DeLong, US, Culprit, and Inflation

...true nature of the evil empire. Not all of us were so clear-minded and steadfast on the side of right. In his classic 1984, George Orwell imagined a totalitarian future that would be like "a boot stamping on a human face - forever." It might...

In this article: Europe, Second World War, Winston Churchill, Angela Merkel, Germany, United States, Trieste, and Balkans

...be able to identify the relevant footage. The data controller has 40 days to comply with the request. You probably mean Nineteen Eighty-Four, which, inconveniently for headline-writers, is George Orwell's title. Make up your own mind: UK

In this article: UK, Data Protection Act, London, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, House of Lords, Nineteen Eighty-Four, West Sussex, and Cambridge

...maintaining that the book is not a "straightforward case for vegetarianism." Nevertheless, his use of a quote from George Orwell's "Animal Farm" - "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" - suggests...

In this article: Jonathan Safran Foer, Chicken, Liberal arts, Liberalism, Dog, World War II, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Animal Farm, and Angela Merkel

...completed A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties by Bob Dylan's ex-girlfriend Suze Rotolo, and the George Orwell classic 1984. "Now I'm waiting for David Grossman's new book to come out in English," she says. Though...

In this article: Israel, Tel Aviv, New Jersey, Interdisciplinary Center, David Grossman, United Nations, and Bob Dylan

...Amazon.com was ironically dubbed 'Big Brother' after it deleted users' electronic copies of books by what author?" The answer was George Orwell. For $15,000, Westmoreland used two lifelines for the question " 'Coffee Bucks' is the name of...

In this article: Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Big Brother, Scrubs, 30 Rock, New York, Oscar, Decatur Central High School, Rutgers University, and Amazon.com

Newspeak lives in reform Newspeak is alive and flourishing here in the first decade of the 21st century. Wouldna t George Orwell be surprised to learn that it is being used effectively not by some commie regime, but by right-wing Republican...

Was Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, reading George Orwell before he offered the world his thoughts on bankers' bonuses? A debate about morality and financial markets took place at St Paul's...

In this article: Goldman Sachs International, Sake, Animal Farm, and St Paul's Cathedral