HUXLEY TALKS
27 01 2008Aldous Huxley talking about ‘Brave New World’ and ‘1984′
Michael Greenwell
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I loved A Brave New World, but the Huxley essays may be the most important works on control, authoritarianism, and abuse of power written last century.