Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Right-wing Twitter sure went to town with “justice-impacted individual” this week, it being the kind of clueless phraseology that ...

George Packer has a good review essay of a new book about the George Orwell novel 1984. Excerpt: For example, many on the left now share an unacknowledged but common assumption that a good work of art ...

It's often the case that we don’t have time to carefully evaluate everything in life. We often take shortcuts. If a reputable authority takes a position, it is convenient and usually safe to just ...

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However, there is Orwellian doublethink at the heart of the ruling party’s developmental agenda. The ANC simultaneously holds ...

The corollary to that is to be required to believe or at least express belief in things that one knows not to be true. In the distant past, which is to say around six months ago, most people were able ...

Who would have imagined, having survived for 33 years after 1984 came and went, that we would be living with a White House that so perfectly replicates the most basic tenet of 1984’s twisted ...

That’s when someone believes two mutually contradictory beliefs. The term comes from George Orwell’s novel “1984,” in which the government ruling party issued absurd dictums such as “War is Peace,” ...

Steve Silberman, the author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, once observed that many people with autism “have been ignored and shunted to the margins of society, ...

Today’s political environment often begs comparison to the dystopian world in Orwell’s 1984, as truth gives way to fake news and our airwaves become replete with “doublethink,” a term coined and ...