Leftists who claim Orwell as their own would likely be surprised to discover that he was very socially conservative.
When the mask slips, people catch an unvarnished glimpse at what is going on behind all the soothing, medicalized language: killing people.
Rich Western countries are pushing the LGBT agenda and abortion in developing countries, promising cash in exchange for their souls—but you won’t read that in the mainstream press.
The ‘Machine’ competes against God, by framing every part of reality as a biological mechanism or a simulation, to be manipulated according to our caprice.
In Hills Like White Elephants Hemingway immortalized a conversation not just of that time, but of all times: a man trying to persuade a woman who is already a mother that she is not yet a mother.
As in most of the great classics, the essential nature of gratitude in difficult circumstances is constantly emphasized.
Imagine realizing that you failed to protect your child from medical quacks who amputated healthy body parts and left her mutilated for life.
Young girls are told to shut their mouths and check their bigotry when they wonder aloud why they are being forced to change with biological men.
FROM THE SUMMER 2023 PRINT EDITION: Martin Amis got the collective cultural impact of pornography right while most were still defending it. “Porno, it seems, is a parody of love,” he wrote.
The most striking thing left out of these conversations is that this baby was aborted at 8 months, and very clearly not for any medical reasons, nor because the child had any disability.
Never in human history has it been easier and cheaper to amass an enormous personal library of the greatest literature produced by our civilization (and others)—and never, perhaps, has it been more important to do so.
Our human links to the Holocaust are breaking, one by one, and there are now few left to share memories about the people they knew, loved, and lost.
