George Orwell

Why we still read Orwell’s book of prophecy.

On the profound impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's early embrace of left-libertarian and anarchist ideologies.

Giles Tremlett tells the story of the foreigners who joined the first line of defense against fascism in Europe.

A counter-narrative to Samuel Moyn’s "Humane": drone warfare and the long history of liberal empire blurring the line between policing and endless war.

Globalism is out. Nationalism is in. Progressives who think they can jump aboard are dangerously naive.

The 45 years of peace between the Cold War superpowers were 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.

When Thomas Kuhn coined the term, he wasn’t referring simply to “out of the box” thinking.

In a new book, “Did it Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.

Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and atrocity have been built.

How to thrive in the power élite—while declaring it your enemy.

Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.

Malcolm Ross is unknown today. That’s too bad. This son of privilege has much to teach us about labor and civic leadership.

Noam Chomsky discusses the hypocrisies of US empire and why if we really wanted to build a decent society, we’d immediately slash the massive military budget.

The crisis that Federici identified in the 1970s has reached a boiling point.

The dropout was not just a hippy-trippy hedonist but a paranoid soul, who feared brainwashing and societal control.

How the federal government enlisted ordinary citizens to spy on each other for the war effort.

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

In ‘The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,’ Louis Menand explores the poetry, music, painting, dance and film that emerged during the Cold War.

The New Yorker critic's new book is a sequel of sorts to "The Metaphysical Club."

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.