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 show how context bent arithmetic, such as angles ...

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 ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

“Special military operation.” “Department of Government Efficiency.” “Enhanced interrogation techniques.” “Alternative facts.” We live in a time when governments use lexical distortions to manipulate ...

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 ...