Orwell argued that you don’t have to be a scientist to think more scientifically.
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Orwell is feted for the farsightedness of his geopolitical vision as long ago as the 1940s. But a lot of writers were thinking along similar lines.
A historian analyzes how White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s claims about her boss and his administration are ‘doublespeak’ straight out of the pages of George Orwell’s ‘1984.’
Nineteen Eighty-Four filled with references to sinking ships, drowning people and the dread of oceanic engulfment
Donald Trump aims to rewrite America’s official history. George Orwell − who wrote, ‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.“ − would recognize that impulse.
George Orwell’s dystopian classic can tell us a lot about contemporary politics and power, from Donald Trump to Facebook.
Why don’t politicians just say what they mean? Because we might not like it.
Boris Johnson and Michael Gove may not be the stuff of Orwell’s dystopian nightmare, but they clearly know how to talk in ‘doublespeak’.
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Professor of History, American University
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Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics, Kingston University
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Professor of Chinese and World History, University of California, Irvine
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Upcoming IASH Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the University of Edinburgh and Associate Fellow of English and Comparative Literary Studies & Honorary Research Fellow of IAS, University of Warwick
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Professor, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus of History, De Montfort University
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Keele University
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Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham