At this point, it sometimes feels like a cliché or reductive to say that our modern world is like 1984, George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel released in 1949, or to say things have become ...

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful... and murder respectable." Neon has unveiled the official trailer for a vitally important new documentary film titled Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, ...

In the last months of his life, writer George Orwell used the final embers of his energy to complete a novel that would become a classic of 20 th century literature: 1984. More than 75 years after its ...

On paper, it’s one of the simplest math problems in the world: 2+2. If you’re counting something, like screws at the hardware store, it’s pretty straightforward. But the lines blur in other contexts.

When I was growing up, the lessons of 1984 – the dystopian novel by George Orwell – were all thought to pertain to the Soviet Union. Big Brother was Josef Stalin – controlling the thoughts of his ...

The film is too interested in the brutality of totalitarianism to fully explore Orwell's great theme: the sinister unreality of it. Yet that’s not ultimately the reason “Nineteen Eighty-Four” remains ...

Filmmaker Raoul Peck uses George Orwell’s writings to weave together a biographical portrait of the author and a dispiriting picture of power and truth in the modern world in “Orwell: 2+2=5.” ...

Orwell: 2+2=5 documents the ongoing relevance of George Orwell’s warnings against totalitarianism, proving that the Orwellian prophecy has already taken shape around us. Seventy-seven years ago, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A simple 2+2 problem became a paradox when real-world context intervened, sparking Kareem Carr’s debate on definitions and axioms. Carr and others ...