by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ All history was palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have
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Thought Control and Cultural Decline
by Mark English ___ Late last year I wrote a piece about censorship and humor, alluding to the fact that in times of oppression and
Guns, Hardcore, Carnitas and Camp
by Daniel A. Kaufman One of the best articles I’ve read on America’s gun problem. Particularly effective is the video which shows what happens when
See Something? Don’t Say Anything.
by Daniel Tippens The children, on the other hand, were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations.
This Week’s Special: George Orwell’s, “Politics and the English Language”
by Daniel A. Kaufman Orwell’s influential essay, published in 1946, when considered alongside his “The Prevention of Literature” (1946) and the Appendix to 1984, “The