15. Right Is Might
By David Kaye
Political cartoonist Zunar, shown accepting CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award in 2015, faces the possibility of dozens of years in prison as a result of his cartoons attacking Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.
(CPJ)
Yevgeny Zamyatin’s strikingly original 1920s Russian novel We gets read far less than its canonical English-language descendants, Brave New World and 1984. Yet George Orwell knew of and clearly drew from Zamyatin’s book in creating 1984. The homage-paying is obvious: A solitary hero struggles to define himself in relation to society; a state and its mysteriously cultish leader control ...
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