Lead vocalist Kobi Farhi explains why 2018 album Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs echoes the ancient message: “dictators ...
The history of banning books in the United States goes back to the 17th century, ironic for a nation that prides itself on ...
The ascent of “show business” and “infotainment” has further diminished the value of in-depth analysis and critical thought.
Orwell’s classic 1984 (published in 1949) and Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) paint chilling portraits of future worlds gone horribly wrong. Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel Station Eleven ...
On Gandhi’s death anniversary, the question is not how much of the Mahatma is good for us but how much of him we can take ...
From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn We live in the age of the tyrant. Treasure is hoarded in bigger and fewer ...
This course examines a variety of late nineteenth-century utopias and dystopias, but also shows the ways this imaginative tradition shaped literary prediction in the twentieth century (including works ...
‘The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything’, declared Aldous Huxley, whose own contribution is ... The chestnuts include Orwell’s ‘England, Your England’, ...