Peck, who has directed narrative films on Patrice Lumumba and the young Karl Marx, and documentaries about Lumumba, ...

Raoul Peck’s documentary ‘Orwell 2+2=5,’ featuring the voice of Damian Lewis and produced by Alex Gibney, explores George Orwell’s prophetic warnings about authoritarianism.

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful... and murder respectable." Neon has unveiled the official ...

GEORGE ORWELL’S Animal Farm (1945) turned 80 on Aug. 17. If there’s one thing every student of history or politics knows, it’s that the novella is not really about animals. Sure, the principal ...

The British writer was satirizing Stalinism in his novel, but the story is a warning against any form of totalitarianism and ...

George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th century, whose novels 1984 and Animal Farm foretold a ...

Two recent events, the firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer and the Smithsonian’s removal ...

On its 80th anniversary, Animal Farm remains relevant not because it predicts one political ideology’s failings, but because ...

Orwell would surely notice that Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, with its tranquil populations of pretty people living in a pleasing soma tupor, was closer to the mark than 1984.

Orwell's 1984 is a warning against Bernie Sanders-style socialism, not against anything having to do with Donald Trump.