The Human Nature We Create
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George Orwell Past and Present: A Conversation with Biographer D.J. Taylor
I am pleased to share the third and final conversation in our series on George Orwell's 1984. Our guest is D.J. Taylor—biographer, novelist, and literary critic. Taylor has produced not one but two definitive biographies of Orwell. The first, Orwell: The Life, was published in 2003.
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
Happening Friday: The Hidden Logic of Common Knowledge with Steven Pinker
This Friday, we look forward to seeing you for our conversation with psychologist and psycholinguist Steven Pinker. We’ll discuss the hidden logic of common knowledge—essentially, how I know that you know that I know . . . and so on. It's fundamental to cooperation and coordination, but can also