1984

George Orwell published Nineteen Eighty-Four in June 1949, seven months before his death from tuberculosis, as a warning rather than a prophecy. The novel imagines Britain absorbed into Oceania, a...

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in June 1949, has become the twentieth century's standard reference point for describing state power stripped of restraint. Conservatives read it not as a warning...

WW2

The Second World War ran from Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 to Japan's surrender aboard USS Missouri on 2 September 1945, killed between 70 and 85 million...

Woman’s Rights

Woman's rights denotes the body of legal and political claims asserting equal standing for women in property, contract, suffrage, education, employment, and family law. In the Anglo-American world the sequence...

White Privilege

White privilege is the claim that people classified as white receive unearned advantages in societies with a history of racial hierarchy, and that these advantages persist after formal legal discrimination...

Westernization

Westernization is the adoption by non-Western societies of institutions, technologies, laws, manners and habits of mind that originated in Western Europe and its colonial offshoots. It has taken the form...

War Crime

A war crime is a serious violation of the law of armed conflict for which an individual bears personal criminal responsibility. The category covers the deliberate killing of prisoners, the...

Voter ID Laws

Voter identification laws require a person presenting to vote to prove who they are, usually by producing a government-issued document. The requirement is unremarkable across most of the democratic world:...