As George Orwell warned more than half a century ago, a dictatorship that can enforce its definition of key terms on the population provides itself with an incredibly powerful defense because all too often people use the terms it has...
A key concept in Nineteen Eighty-Four is “Newspeak.” A language designed by the novel’s IngSoc English Socialist Party to eliminate the people’s ability to express dissent. Orwell describes the principles of...
Even as Vladimir Putin claims that Russia is fated to have a great future, the Kremlin leader is doing little to end the impoverishment and repressions of Russians today and ever more to restore many of the worst features of the dark...
First stereotype: Ukrainians are very poor Some Europeans viewed Ukraine as extremely poor. Many Ukrainian refugees were surprised to learn that. “They perceived us almost like we are cave people who do not know and have not seen...
