How Dostoevsky’s 1984 saved him from our brave new world; a review of Neil Postman’s comments on both 1984 and Brave New World and their respective risks. Is it more likely in our culture that books will be banned, or that the internet and other forms of media will completely drown out any complex thought? Some reflections on that, a link to a recent comic version of an extract from Postman, and how Dostoevsky’s experience of Christianity fits in.