Orwell and Huxley offered contrasting dystopias: oppression versus distraction. Which feels more real today? Explore their ...

Re “Introducing the Department of Mass Distraction” by Alex Beam (Opinion, Feb. 15): Between George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” the debate has raged ...

Aldous Huxley famously said of orthodoxy that it learns not and neither does it forget. It is a pertinent piece of criticism as we consider Howie Roseman’s brave new world.

In a time where society teeters towards dystopia, such as the one in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, sometimes, doing our best might be the most heroic thing we can do.

Throughout history, human ingenuity has been driven by a desire to make life easier. The discovery of fire allowed early ...

Ray Bradbury, who wrote the brilliant 1953 science-fiction book "Fahrenheit 451," which is about a dystopian culture that ...

The essence of this collection of strikingly original pensées appears in the course of Rieff’s suggestion that the “radical homogenization” imposed by modern society that Aldous Huxley imagined in ...

References to Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” are sprinkled throughout the text, where citizen authorities are tasked with questioning others, demanding various information about political ...

In "Superbloom," Nicholas Carr laments that we live in a state of uncontrollable sensory and communication overload.