Doublethink Anew

from The Atlantic Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell Imagined What 1984 means today GEORGE PACKER No novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell’s 1984. The title, the adjectival form of the author’s last name, the vocabulary of the all-powerful Party that rules the superstate Oceania with the ideology of Ingsoc—doublethink, memory hole, unperson, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Thought Police, Room 101, Big Brother—they’ve all […]