Awaiting the outcome of his secret trial in a cold Soviet prison, the Old Bolshevik Rubashov reflects on a long and bloody career as Party revolutionary. In his meditations, Rubashov attempts to make sense of the arc of history.
By Anja Kaspersen, Kobi Leins & Wendell Wallach When George Orwell coined the term “totalitarianism,” he had not lived in a totalitarian regime but was merely imagining what it might look like. He referred to two primary traits of totalitarian societies: one is lying (or misinformation), and the other is what he called “schizophrenia.” Orwell wrote: “The organised
Richard Thomas was charged earlier this year with setting Sasha Fleishman on fire. Sasha drifted off to sleep on the bus heading home from school, only to wake up screaming “I’m on fire!” Sasha’s skirt went up in flames leaving second- and third-degree burns. The case was labeled a “hate-crime;” Sasha was born biologically male,
