“If the language of war is now aimed at fellow Americans, how long before wartime powers are too?” 1984 Wasn’t a Warning, It Was a Blueprint Ten Lessons From Orwell That America 2025 Is Failing to Learn War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. George Orwell’s slogans weren’t meant as prophecy. They were meant as diagnosis: how fragile truth becomes when power is unchecked. In 2025, the United States is watching an Dean Brady • Society
When Democracy Fails: What the DNC Still Does Not Understand On The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, Democratic Party Chair Ken Martin was handed an opportunity: lay out what Democrats stand for heading into 2026. Instead, what viewers saw was the emptiness of consultant-speak and the absence of a vision. Dean Brady • Society
Crowd-Sourcing Democracy: How the Exhausted Middle Can Rebuild Trust American politics is unraveling inside our closest circles. Families and friendships that survived disagreements for decades are now breaking apart. What once felt like arguments about taxes or foreign policy are now fights about reality itself. The far right has become louder, comfortable speaking openly about racism, exclusion, and authoritarian Dean Brady • Society
The Deportation Machine We’re Building ICE’s civilian recruitment and expanding detention echo the patterns of history—and offer a warning we can’t ignore. We are not just building detention centers. We are building a machine of power that will not sit idle. Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Lessons In 1992, historian Christopher Browning published Ordinary Dean Brady • Society
Epstein, Accountability, and the Problem with “What About…?” The news around Jeffrey Epstein isn’t going away — no matter how much some people may want it to. From the White House or South Park or my… Dean Brady • Society
How Do We Judge People Across Time? A question that gets more complicated the deeper you dig Dean Brady • Society
