totalitarian

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In a totalitarian sci-fi world, a hammer thrown by a young athlete smashes a "Big Brother" figure declaiming to brainwashed citizens from a vast screen.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Breaking ranks in a constitutional democracy may not incur the same risks as in a totalitarian regime, but revising the dictionary of received ideas isn’t for cowards in any society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy,” Orwell wrote in his diary while he was working on the book.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2025

What’s amazing about “Brazil,” even after 40 years, is how prophetic it was about the manipulation of public mores and knowledge by a totalitarian regime.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

"I was living and working on the frontier between the totalitarian world and the West," he observed, "seeing both sides, and constantly angered by the contrast between the two."

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau