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
In 1948 George Orwell identified “Newspeak” as an essential component of the totalitarian toolkit: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
Mass manufacturing backstopped American primacy in the 20th century; the U.S. outbuilt and outinnovated its totalitarian foes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
“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
"I was living and working on the frontier between the totalitarian world and the West," he observed, "seeing both sides, and constantly angered by the contrast between the two."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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