House Republicans appear to be using Doublethink to sell their healthcare plan. If it works, there will be no stopping them.
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Tag Archives: George Orwell
Using Doublethink To Sell Trumpcare
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Fundamentalists Send Readers to Atwood
Margaret Atwood’s “Handmaid’s Tale” is topping bestseller lists at the moment. The reason is probably because of the GOP’s prospect of success in curbing reproductive freedom.
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Trump’s “Truth” Is Like Big Brother’s
Like Orwell’s Big Brother, Donald Trump has been allowed to define truth. We’re all paying for it.
When Surveillance Is Incompetent
When, in a post last week, I found parallels between the National Security Agency’s extensive data mining attempts and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, I neglected to mention (as this New Yorker essay does) that one has to be careful with books that have themselves become symbols. When this happens, they become like clichés, losing their […]
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Big Brother Is Data Mining You
The government”s Prism data-mining program predictably brings Orwell’s “1984” to mind.
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Bad GOP Messaging? Try Doublethink
Some recent GOP attempts to soften their message while retaining their policies remind one of Orwellian doublespeak.
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Orwell Shot Down More Than an Elephant
Essayist Dylan Nice describes how Orwell’s essay “Shooting the Elephant” pulled him out of kneejerk rightwing prejudices.
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Can Art Change Big Brother?
The Oscar-winning German film “The Lives of Others” speaks to the ability of art to change people’s lives.
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