Words matter. Government-imposed elimination of words and violation of constitutionally-protected free press guarantees ...
In just a few weeks, the US president has embarked on an impressive lexical blitzkrieg with strong ideological content.
Out with the oldspeak. In with President Trump’s newspeak — or else. That’s the apparent message as the Trump White House tries to punish a preeminent news outlet for its editorial decision ...
Called by some the most important writer of the twentieth century, his legacy is in part in his language: Newspeak, Thought Police, Big Brother. Even his name has become an adjective: Orwellian.
George Orwell knew this all too well. His seminal work “1984” includes an entirely new language construct, Newspeak, designed to deceive, as well a slew of prescient quotes, like “It’s a ...
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a special operations forces base in North Carolina back to Fort Bragg - but claims it's in honour of a different person ...