[Opinion] Trump's America Combines Worst Of 'Brave New World' And '1984'

Is 2025 the New 1984?

Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the Ministry of Truth; or the ruling party’s memorably grim slogans, “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery.” But for me, the most disturbing image of all — and I first read the book in high school — was the “Two Minutes Hate,” aroused among the public by thr…

Trump's America Combines Worst Of 'Brave New World' And '1984'

Columnist Barth Keck says he's been teaching "Media Literacy" for 30 years, and his inspiration for creating the class was "Amusing Ourselves to Death," a book written in 1985 by the late Neil Postman, a New York University professor of "media ecology."