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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2017
... ways of pushing back against xenophobic populism. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 fascism populism the far right xenophobia George Orwell After the inauguration of President Donald Trump, sales of George Orwell’s 1984 jumped 9,500 percent. The dystopian novel...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 89–99.
Published: 01 September 2001
... for Stalin as a realist that set the Revolution. In Carr’s history, Wolfe re­ Carr apart. Writing for the Partisan Review marks, “There is doctrine, but no clash of in 1944, George Orwell sardonically noted ideologies or faiths; famine, but no hunger; that among the intelligentsia, “all the ap­...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 3–7.
Published: 01 June 2012
... remarkable changes to societies. Today, we have asked our panel of global experts to weigh in on how sport has transformed their world. The role of sport in helping to change and develop post-conflict countries has been suggested both by George Orwell in his description of sport as “war minus...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 48–53.
Published: 01 March 2017
... state, as without it, the Russian people will not accept fighting foreign battles indefinitely. The problem of defining fascism goes back to 1944, when George Orwell complained about the tendency to “recklessly fling the word ‘Fascist’ in every direction.” Recently Motyl cited at least 10 different...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 124–129.
Published: 01 June 2018
... is the space in which LGBT+ and #MeToo meet Tim Cook and Bill Gates. How did we come to this? As many conservatives have noticed (and here they are right), our era is characterized by the progressive disintegration of a shared network of customs that ground what George Orwell approvingly referred to as “common...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 94–105.
Published: 01 December 2012
... in the creation of school history curricula. Then there’s the question of just what George Orwell was trying to say about Imperial Britain in his famous essay “Shooting an Elephant.” “When the white man turns tyrant,” Orwell observed from colonial Burma, “it is his own freedom that he destroys.” The concept...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 86–107.
Published: 01 March 2015
... the means, or even the greed, of the victims of a Bernard Madoff, for instance. But those who were wounded in this scheme that I will outline had little or nothing to fall back on, once good faith and trust were breached in the interest of illicit and unchecked profit. London, said George Orwell...
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