Americans have just witnessed what may stand in historical perspective as the onset of a new era. That is, the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11th. The World Wars represented for most people the depth of carnage, brutality and government excess that is possible wh...

George Orwell's 1984 George Orwell's 1984 was released in 1949, at a time when the world was still reeling from the effects of World War II. The Soviet Union had just exploded the first atomic bomb, setting off 40 years of the Cold War. Supports of capitalism thus latched onto the book a...