When judges have to cite Orwell in their rulings, our descent into dystopia is self-evident

By: Max McCoy

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: February 22, 2026

Words: 2,088

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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The dining room table is the civic and moral hearth of our house on Constitution Street. Upon it rest a stack of utility and other bills to be sorted and paid (with cursing as necessary), issues of various magazines including “The New Yorker” and “Fortean Times,” a dog-eared paperback of a Tom Wolfe anthology, and a shaker of sea salt, a squeeze bottle of raw honey and a red-topped dispenser of soy sauce. There are …

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