How George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening now
How George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening now
- January 19, 2026
- Jeffrey Wasserstrom, history and Long Institute, The Conversation, Jan. 19, 2026
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom, UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of history [and a Long U.S.-China Institute affiliated faculty] and Emrah Atasoy write, “Nineteen Eighty-Four has had extraordinary longevity as a go-to text for political commentary. There are many explanations for its staying power, but right now a key feature of it may be its relevance to thinking about both repression of dissent and Newspeak-style propaganda in many individual countries – and the unsettling geopolitical tensions in the world at large.”
For the full story, please visit https://theconversation.com/how-george-orwells-nineteen-eighty-four-predicted-the-global-power-shifts-happening-now-273122.
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