The Reading Room
On Public Opinion
Walter Lippmann asked, in 1922, a question that has only grown more urgent: how can the people govern themselves if they cannot actually know the world they are trying to...
On Public Opinion
Walter Lippmann asked, in 1922, a question that has only grown more urgent: how can the people govern themselves if they cannot actually know the world they are trying to...
On Politics and the English Language
George Orwell's 1946 essay Politics and the English Language is the shortest entry in this library's media cluster and one of the most useful things a citizen can read, because...
On Politics and the English Language
George Orwell's 1946 essay Politics and the English Language is the shortest entry in this library's media cluster and one of the most useful things a citizen can read, because...
On Nineteen Eighty-Four
Some books are so influential that their vocabulary becomes the language we use to discuss the dangers they describe. Nineteen Eighty-Four is the supreme example.
On Nineteen Eighty-Four
Some books are so influential that their vocabulary becomes the language we use to discuss the dangers they describe. Nineteen Eighty-Four is the supreme example.
On Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, published in 1932, is the great counterpart to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the two books are best read together because they imagine opposite roads to...
On Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, published in 1932, is the great counterpart to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the two books are best read together because they imagine opposite roads to...
On Propaganda
Edward Bernays opened his 1928 book Propaganda with a sentence that still chills: the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses, he wrote, is...
On Propaganda
Edward Bernays opened his 1928 book Propaganda with a sentence that still chills: the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses, he wrote, is...