George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

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A society that has made ostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates...

A society that has made ostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates...

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families...

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families...

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as...

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as...

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of...

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of...

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by...

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by...

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from...

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from...

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to...

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to...

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a...

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a...

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to...

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to...

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality...

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality...

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want...

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want...

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family...

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family...

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us...

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us...

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are...

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are...

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature...

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature...

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them...

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them...

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to...

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to...