totalitarian

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In a totalitarian sci-fi world, a hammer thrown by a young athlete smashes a "Big Brother" figure declaiming to brainwashed citizens from a vast screen.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

As writers and scholars, Lewis and Tolkien ranked among the most perceptive critics of burgeoning totalitarian movements such as Nazism and communism, in no small part due to their shared Christian faith.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy,” Orwell wrote in his diary while he was working on the book.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2025

What’s amazing about “Brazil,” even after 40 years, is how prophetic it was about the manipulation of public mores and knowledge by a totalitarian regime.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

He resettled in the United States in 1940, thereby avoiding any more serious consequences of challenging the totalitarian line.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall