George Orwell Past and Present: A Conversation with Biographer D.J. Taylor

George Orwell's Surprising Stance on Hypocrisy

George Orwell was deeply concerned about hypocrisy—but in the opposite way you might expect. That’s what struck me about halfway through writing my new book The Hypocrisy Trap. Orwell spent his career hacking away at humbug and falsehoods and famously warned how language gets corrupted by “a gap

Event Recording — The Hidden Logic of Common Knowledge with Steven Pinker

Event Recording — The Age of Surveillance Capitalism with Shoshana Zuboff

Tomorrow's Group Discussions: Links & Info

Tomorrow, we look forward to seeing you for our group discussions. We'll host two, one hour discussions, with Eastern and Western Hemisphere options. You'll find the Zoom links to join below, along with some of the questions we'll consider during the discussion.

Labor Day: Orwell and Work

“Twenty million people are underfed but literally everyone in England has access to a radio. What we have lost in food we have gained in electricity. Whole sections of the working class who have been plundered of all they really need are being compensated, in part, by cheap luxuries which

Summer Book Club Schedule: Group Discussions & Expert Conversations

The Summer Book Club’s event schedule is here. We have an exciting mix of group discussions and expert conversations, so be sure to add the events to your calendar. In future posts, I will share more about our expert guests, the themes for our conversations, and what we’ll

The ‘1984’ Spark File: Add Your Ideas, Questions, and Connections

The Spark File is favorite tool of writers and readers alike. It's incredibly simple. It's a document of running bullet points containing ideas, questions, and connections. New idea? Add a bullet point. New question that might be worth thinking about later? Add a bullet point. (I

What Is Science?

4 Myths Worth Busting About George Orwell and '1984'

8 Facts Worth Knowing About '1984'

19 Facts Worth Knowing About George Orwell

And we’re off! As we start this summer’s book club, I want to explore the life of George Orwell and the context in which he wrote 1984. To begin, I’ll share a three-part series covering some of the facts and myths about Orwell and 1984.  As a