How ‘1984’ Has Become a How-To Manual

A police officer stands amid smoke and debris as buildings continue to burn in the aftermath of a night of protests and violence following the death of George Floyd, in Minneapolis on May 29, 2020. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

Commentary

In “The Principles of Newspeak,” the appendix to “1984,” George Orwell reported that it was expected that Newspeak “would have finally superseded Oldspeak (or Standard English, as we should call it) by about the year 2050.”