What is wisdom, and is it unwise to pursue it?
It is a tall order to try to become wise. And the bad news is that it appears harder than many philosophers have thought.
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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
On the centenary of Anthony Burgess’s birth – A Clockwork Orange had a profound influence on the cultural and political landscape.
Brave New World: the pill-popping, social media obsessed dystopia we live in
Alternative facts owe more to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World than Orwell's 1984.
What are the Orwellian dystopias of the 21st century?
Every crystal ball has a shelf life, even the most prescient.
2017 isn’t ‘1984’ – it’s stranger than Orwell imagined
The best selling book on Amazon is '1984' – which was originally published in 1949. A historian from Case Western Reserve University considers how the novel helps us think about our present moment.
The curious power of hate propaganda in open societies
Truth’s victory over hate propaganda is neither automatic nor preordained. It requires a commitment to equal rights and norms of tolerance.
Under the influence of … Dumile Feni’s ‘African Guernica’
‘African Guernica’ is an incredibly powerful work of art in many ways, importantly filling that space between the visible and the visible.
All the Olympics are a stage, and all the athletes merely players: the rich history of the modern Games
The Olympic Games are a theatre — sometimes farce, sometimes tragedy, reality TV, morality play or soap opera — where geopolitical, social and technological dramas are played out.
Why Turkey wants to silence its academics
A scholar who grew up in Turkey explains the important role Turkey's academics play and why, following the recent coup, the government went after them.
Goodbye to all that: Orwell’s 1984 is a boot stamping on a human face no more
Many still regard George Orwell’s 1984 and its message about the nature of language and power "definitive". But globalisation has revolutionised how we communicate; 1984 tells us nothing about our future.
George Orwell really did have a stint in jail as a drunk fish porter
If you had been walking down Mile End Road in London on Saturday December 19, 1931, you would have witnessed a scene common in the days before Christmas across Britain. A man who had celebrated a little…
Will Self, George Orwell and … what’s he newspeaking about?
Writer Will Self grabbed headlines earlier this week by referring to George Orwell as the “Supreme Mediocrity”. He wrote: The curious thing is that while during the post-war period we’ve had many political…
Amazon’s hachette job evokes George Orwell in ebook price fight
In what is fast becoming a regular negotiating tactic, Amazon has halted pre-orders of DVDs and Blue-Ray discs of some Disney movies. This includes titles such as “Maleficent,” and “Captain America: The…
What Orwell might have said about today’s Big Brothers
So it’s Day 21 in Channel 5’s Big Brother household. It would also have been George Orwell’s 111th birthday. And this month marks 65 years since his landmark novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published…
Orwellian climate double-speak dominating discussion
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the term “Newspeak” conveys changes not only to the language but to the nature…
An Orwellian climate
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts” – Senator Daniel Moynihan Science is a systematic, evidence-based, testable and self-correcting way of investigating the world. This…
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