‘Coming Up for Air’ in 2022
Written a decade before "1984," Orwell's darkly comic novel speaks to today's claustrophobic environment of commercialism, propaganda and war.
By Michael Judge
The past years have furnished many depraved moments to remind us of George Orwell’s 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” none more so than Vladimir Putin’s murderous assault on Ukraine and truth. “Political language…
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