From democracy to vaccines to election results to Orwell himself, the rewriting of the past to fit current attitudes has become an incurable mania
Narrated by Jared Moore
Art by Daniel Medina
Text published 06/05/25:
The Memory-Holing of Everything, Even George Orwell
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On Monday’s America This Week Walter Kirn read from a bizarre introduction to his 75th Anniversary edition paperback edition of 1984. Written by Harvard-educated author Dolen Perkins-Valdez, it came with a trigger warning:
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