When judges have to cite Orwell in their rulings, our descent into dystopia is self-evident

When judges have to cite Orwell in their rulings, our descent into dystopia is self-evident

A U.S. passport rests among papers, books and magazines at columnist Max McCoy's home (Max McCoy/Kansas Reflector).The dining room table is the civic and moral hearth of our house on Constitution Street. Upon it rest a stack of utility and other bills to be sorted and paid (with cursing as necessary), issues of various magazines including “The New Yorker” and “Fortean Times,” a dog-eared paperback of a Tom Wolfe anthology, and a shaker of sea sa…