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SOURCE: The Conversation
6/12/2019
What Orwell’s ‘1984’ tells us about today’s world, 70 years after it was published
by Stephen Groening
The techniques and technologies described in the novel are very much present in today’s world.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1-26-17
2017 isn’t ‘1984’ – it’s stranger than Orwell imagined
by John Broich
In Orwell’s Oceania, there is no freedom to speak facts except those that are official. In 2017 America, at least among many of the powerful minority who selected its president, the more official the fact, the more dubious.
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SOURCE: The Hill
1-24-17
Sales of ’1984’ surge after Conway talks ‘alternative facts’
The iconic book, published nearly 70 years ago, is the sixth best-selling book on Amazon as of Tuesday morning.
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