The New GOP: George Orwell Project

George Orwell Who was GEORGE ORWELL? George Orwell, for whom the new G.O.P. is named—not the Republican Party—is among the most influential writers of the mid-20 th century. He was born in 1903 and died in 1950 and was primarily known for the dystopian novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). Offering chilling warnings of the dangers of totalitarianism, these books also contributed the basic vocabulary of the authoritarian practices that emerged rather than