George Orwell meant it as a warning, not a prophecy. Yet the dying novelist's Nineteen Eighty-Four gave the world Big Brother ...

George Orwell’s dystopian novels “Animal Farm” and “1984” have remained popular in the U.S. ever since their initial publication in the 1940s. What’s less well known is that in the years before the ...

George Orwell stood up for democratic socialism and against totalitarianism. He praised lucid writing and condemned euphemistic language. Many of the phrases with which we analyse politics and culture ...

Orwell himself could be sentimental about his longing to escape (“Thinking always of my island in the Hebrides,” he’d once written in his wartime diary) or wonderfully blunt. In the aftermath of ...

He is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today? Credit...Photo illustration by Alex Merto Supported by By Matthew Purdy As Vice ...

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,” George Orwell once said. This simple line offers a sharp look at modern life. Orwell was not talking about eyesight or literal ...

Orwell’s ideological impact maintains even now, precisely because he designed his masterful last work of fiction to be ...