George Orwell

Why we still read Orwell’s book of prophecy.

Neil Postman's classic "Amusing Ourselves to Death" predicted a dystopian American future.

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.

How Samuel Francis wrote the recipe for MAGA.

An exhibit at the Jewish Museum reveals an artist for his time — and ours.

In the 1950s, the CIA funded efforts to smuggle great works of literature into the Eastern Bloc.

Trump mixes restoration with revolution—his reactionary modernism wooed Silicon Valley, but for everyone else, it signals looming repression.

Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.

Neil Postman’s jeremiad against TV seems rather quaint today—and not just because he was shouting into the wind and knew it.

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.

On teaching in a red state, the silences in our history lessons, and all I never learned about my hometown.