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"Lord Of The World" by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson seems also very prescient. - DeGaulle
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Pleasant Robert and to think you were there for each of these events...........hehehe, nah nice stuff here and thanks - Jack,CT
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Benson is very good, though a bit distant from us now, and a favorite of Pope Francis, of course. Michael O'Brien's "Father Elijah" is big and bold, and covers some of the same spiritual territory from...
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@Dr. Royal But let's be honest, which work has penetrated deeper into our perceptions of the world around us? We commonly mark examples from our own Democrat pols of goodthink, blackwhite, doublethink,...
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I have to agree with the O'Brien book. Excellent read, and hits the nail on the head with our present era quite well. A gripping read, with the final pages very moving. His prequel to Elijah is equally...
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Timely column, Robert. Neil Postman, in his book "Amusing Ourselves to Death," pretty well summed up the difference between Orwell and Huxley, writing: "What Orwell feared were those who would ban...
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Lord of the World, the pope's pick, despite it's being the earlier work, catches the very latest totalitarian evil by the toes - euthanasia. Priceless mockery of the vitiphobes exemplified in, say, the...
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Lately I have read several interesting books including Robert Reilly's "Making Gay Okay," Sheila Liaugminas' "Non-Negotiable," and J Budziszewski's "What We Can't Not Know," and I am currently working...
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Tech Reich - gawd I wish is thought of that. I guess Brave New was over my head. I have no use for Huxley. And I detest that word "dystopia" because a) too many people use it; it's "cool"; b) ive never...
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Let me just clarify one part of my initial remark above, regarding Ed Feser's book: it is a very good book -- at least up to page 97, which is as far as I have gotten thus far. He is an excellent...
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I am finishing up Lord of the World. Father Elijah is fantastic and I am so glad to hear your recommendation, Mr. Royal. I am sad to say that other than my husband, I have no other acquaintance who has...
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Dr. Royal, I would argue that, at their core, Fascism, National Socialism, and Soviet-style Communism are not very different from each other. All are statist ideologies. Fascism and National Socialism...
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Rich, if I may? The difference between the books to which you refer and the guests of this Mr Moyer, may greatly exceed the difference between "different planetary orbits" and "different galaxies", to...
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If we have any doubts about the relevance of 1984 today and the reality of the world that he predicted it is becuase we have forgotten that even now there are mmillions of people living under the...
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Both 1984 and Brave New World have their own value, however flawed their authors were. 1984 exposed the power that information has over the populace and can be seen in action today most overtly in the...
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Perhaps it may be more accurate to state the both Huxley and Orwell were correct with the distinction that they described different stages. Huxley's stage of societal apathy and self-absorption occurs...
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