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Politicians in our times feed their cliches to television, where even those who wish to disagree repeat them. Television purports to challenge political language by conveying images, but the succession from one frame to another can hinder a sense of resolution. Everything happens fast, but nothing actually happens. Each story on televised news is "breaking" until it is displaced by the next one. So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see..
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Some of the political and historical texts that inform the arguments made here are "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell (1946); The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer (1947); The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951); The Rebel by Albert Camus (1951); The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz (1953); "The Power of the Powerless" by Vaclav Havel (1978); "How to Be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist" by Leszek..
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Some of the political and historical texts that inform the arguments made here are "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell (1946); The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer (1947); The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951); The Rebel by Albert Camus (1951); The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz (1953); "The Power of the Powerless" by Vaclav Havel (1978); "How to Be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist" by Leszek..
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being might suit our moment. Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here is perhaps not a great work of art; Philip Roth's The Plot Against America is better. One novel known by millions of young Americans that offers an account of tyranny and resistance is J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. If you or your friends or your children d..
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The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer (1947); The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951); The Rebel by Albert Camus (1951); The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz (1953); "The Power of the Powerless" by Vaclav Havel (1978); "How to Be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist" by Leszek Kolakowski (1978); The Uses of Adversity by Timothy Garton Ash (1989); The Burden of Responsibility by Tony Judt (1998); Ordinary Men by Christ..
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