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Articles written by Ken Abramowitz


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  • Time to heed George Orwell's warning

    Ken Abramowitz|Oct 23, 2020

    (JNS) — The British essayist, novelist and critic Eric Arthur Blair, best known to the world as George Orwell, died in 1950. A year before his death from tuberculosis, he used his unique insight to write his classic dystopian novel “1984.” That book, published in 1949, eerily predicted the totalitarian threats that the United States is facing today. It dealt with the consequences of a totalitarian government, mass surveillance, unending propaganda to distort the truth, and the suppression of freedom, including even the freedom of thoug...

  • Progressives are regressive

    Ken Abramowitz|Oct 2, 2020

    (JNS) — Progressives claim to represent the forces of change, reform and social justice. They say they care for the well-being of the voters. They allege that those who believe in the Constitution and Bill of Rights are cruel, and call them dangerous racists. Yet they forget some of the most important words in the Declaration of Independence that framed our national mission: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Lif...