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100 years on 

In Competition No. 2612 you were invited to provide an extract from an issue of The Spectator from the year 2109. Back in the mid-1950s...

Big brother in the office: all companies, no matter how small should have a written and well-publicized computer-use policy. 

When I hear "1984," I often ink of the Van Halen rock classic instead of George Orwell's dark book about Big Brother. Though almost 60 years old,...

Whyyou don't have to be a Socialist to be a good teacher 

Byline: PETER HITCHENS

When people start mucking about with the past, it is wise to worry.

The systematic rewriting of...

Bridges to shoot The Giver 

JEFF BRIDGES is to star in and produce a film adaptation of the 1994 novel The Giver, which his daughter recommended after reading it at...

A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age. (Briefly Noted).(Review) 

A VISIT TO VANITY FAIR: MORAL ESSAYS ON THE PRESENT AGE. By ALAN JACOBS. Brazos. 176 pp. $18.99 paper. Without pretension, Alan Jacobs intends...

Inspirations 

What books and films have had the greatest influence on your opinions? Books-wise, it would be Roland Barthes, Mythologies; Mary Douglas,...

Propaganda in America? 

"Truth is something outside yourself, something to be discovered, and not ... something you can make up as you go along."--George Orwell, 1944 ...

A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 

Some writers, though, have done exceedingly well at taking in one or another human scene, then conveying it to others - James Agee, for instance,...