In a diary he kept in 1942, the novelist and essayist George Orwell recorded the disgust he felt for his contemporaries and the political discourse of his day, which was pervaded by intellectual ...

This blog’s reader reflectionephemeral passes along this cartoon précis of the late Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves To Death,” in which Postman advances the thesis that Aldous Huxley, not George ...

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George Orwell feared that governments would control us through harsh censorship and constant surveillance Aldous Huxley predicted that we would be dulled by mindless consumption and endless ...

It’s difficult to read Susan Berfield’s outstanding story on how Wal-Mart monitors its workforce without thinking of Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel, “Brave New World.” In a 1949 letter to George ...

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So which dystopia are we living in? Most educated people have read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” So influential have these books been that we are ...

The 1984 commercial based on 1984 is like taking a sledgehammer to Orwell's memory, but big tech has proved itself an entirely different kind of big brother. In a new interview, Scott reveals that he ...

NEW YORK — The country's book-buyers are reading up on being watched. Sales for dystopian classics such as George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" have been strong since news ...