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 ...

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the daily press briefing on Nov. 4, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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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 ...

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, ...