George Orwell’s political thinking was dramatically shaped while fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Thanks to the influence of the Soviet Union, the Republican side spent a lot of time fighting ...

George Orwell’s writing pierced intellectual hypocrisy wherever he found it. He was born Eric Arthur Blair in Bengal, India, in 1903. After attending the elite British Prep School Eton ...

An Australian teacher is the winner of the Orwell Society's Peter Davidson Award in recognition of "outstanding ability and ...

But by far the greatest beneficiary of our newly piqued national anxiety is George Orwell’s 1984 ... Ignorance is Strength.” Born in 1903, Orwell lived through two world wars and saw the ...

George Orwell famously argued that clear language in politics can be a bulwark against oppression. But in the Trump era, his solution no longer holds.

After a slew of biographies on George Orwell seeking either to add to his ... Constantly twitted for being a tall, lanky, TB-coughing Old Etonian born in Motihari, Bihar, where his father was ...

I had just read a phrase George Orwell wrote about public schools ... But there is a reason: Orwell (born Eric Blair, as he was when he shared prep school and Eton with Connolly) wrote common ...