Tag Archives: George Orwell

Trump’s Orwellian Cabinet Picks

By Robin Bates | Published: November 18, 2024

1984 understands Trumpism like few other books.

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By Robin Bates | Published: July 14, 2024

The current candidates for Trump’s V-P are behaving like Alexander Pope’s dunces.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 13, 2024

Many in the GOP who condemned January 6 when it happened now, like Winston Smith, love Big Brother.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 30, 2024

Gov. Kristi Noem boasting of shooting her puppy brings to mind the tragic dog killing by Gabriel Oak in Hardy’s “Far from the Madding Crowd.”

By Robin Bates | Published: March 28, 2024

Like Big Brother, Putin is attempting to change the facts of the Moscow terrorist attack to justify his political goals.

By Robin Bates | Published: February 27, 2024

Mother Jones columnist David Corn finds increasing relevance in Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here.”

By Robin Bates | Published: January 1, 2024

Nikki Haley reminds one of Tom Parsons in “1984.” Also of one of T.S. Eliot’s hollow men.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 12, 2023

MAGA fans of 1984 are now accusing leftists of canceling Orwell. Which is not true.

By Robin Bates | Published: November 30, 2023

American authoritarians appropriating Orwell’s “1984” for their own use is itself an Orwellian move.

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