Source: Kurt Mahlburg via mercatornet.comReprinted with permission. Facts once assumed true by everyone are quickly becoming controversial. This is a trend we have all become aware of. There is, for example, increasing pressure to suggest that pregnancy can happen to women and men. People who wish to express that “all […]
Tag: 1984
Orwell, Atheism, and Totalitarianism
Source: Carson Holloway via Public DiscourseReprinted with permission Carson Holloway is a Washington Fellow in the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life and co-editor of The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton (Cambridge University Press). Many have argued that without God there can be no fixed moral principles. George Orwell’s 1984 goes […]
Cancelling Orwell?
Source: William Kilpatrick via turningpointproject.comReprinted with permission There’s an almost dream-like quality to the events of the last 12 months. Depending on their political/cultural views, the dream will be experienced by some as pleasant, by others as disturbing, and by still others as nightmarish. For those in the latter category, […]