totalitarianism

‘We’ and Orwell

Orwell doesn’t see O’Brien as “seduced by a mistaken theory or blind to the facts,” Rorty observes. “He simply views him as dangerous and possible.”

My Dictator: Growing up in Ceausescu’s Romania

We believed—at least a little—the things we had been repeating all our lives.

Buy Paper Books!

“The idea that the books I buy can be relegated to some kind of fucking software license is the most grotesque and awful thing I can imagine,” Doctorow said.