What George Orwell would say about Trump – and how to handle him
Orwell conjured up the ultimate dictatorship to illustrate how anti-democratic leaders use brazen deceit to prove and magnify ...
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Silencing Dissent
The right to free speech is the lifeblood of a democratic dispensation. Democracy cannot thrive if people are not allowed to express their disapproval and subject government policies to scrutiny, ...
Vance uses half-truths to lecture a European audience well aware of the threat of authoritarian rule
US Vice President JD Vance, taking the stage in Munich, to eviscerate totalitarianism in Europe. But not in Moscow, ...
In Trump’s Washington, Words Become Weaponized
The previous administration’s progressive lexicon has been swept away, replaced by a new official language of a bureaucracy ...
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At CSU, Orwell Meets Safetyism
To the question: “Is the behavior(s) protected by principles of free speech or academic freedom?” the answer is not “the ... every movement scrutinized.” Orwell perfectly describes what “OCC” will do ...
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Vance uses half-truths to lecture a European audience well aware of the threat of authoritarian rule
Vance then launched into a wide-ranging diatribe about freedom of speech being shackled in Europe ... Europe has been here before. As George Orwell said as the dust of the last big land war ...
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An Israeli raid of a famous Palestinian bookstore stokes censorship fears
A famous Palestinian-owned bookstore in East Jerusalem was raided by Israeli police, stoking fears of increased censorship.