by Henry Oliner | Mar 10, 2021 | Media
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 25, 2021 | Media, Politics
Thus, Orwell envisioned that (1) government control over (2) printed matter posed a serious threat for Western democracies. He was wrong on both counts. (He was, of course, right on both counts insofar as Russia, China and other pre-electronic cultures are concerned.)...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 17, 2018 | Politics
From Kevin Williamson at National Review, The World Keeps Not Ending: Tom Wolfe joked that “the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe,” which wasn’t quite right: There’s Saudi Arabia, and China, and Burma . . ....
by Henry Oliner | Aug 30, 2017 | Education, Politics, Progressivism
from Scientific American, The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism- The roots of the current campus madness, by Michael Shermer: In a 1946 essay in the London Tribune entitled “In Front of Your Nose,” George Orwell noted that “we are all capable of believing...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 16, 2017 | Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
from the FEE, Foundation for Economic Education, Be Wary of the Orwellian “Enlightened” Classby Robin Koerner Scientism is science stripped of its epistemological core, which is the knowledge that we don’t know. Those who practice it think they are “being scientific”...
