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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
... of the more warm-blooded Three Who Made
of admiration 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...
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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
... if interpreted through fascist categories. 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 definitions of the word. Yet scholars’ interpretations tend...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 124–129.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of a shared network of customs that ground what George Orwell approvingly referred to as “common decency.” Such standards are increasingly dismissed as a yoke that subordinates individual freedom to proto-fascist organic social forms. In such a situation, the liberal view of minimalist laws (that we should...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 94–105.
Published: 01 December 2012
... be involved 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...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 86–107.
Published: 01 March 2015
... secretive and hyper-mobile, aided by the deregulation of financial markets. London, said George Orwell, is a deeply civilized and useless place. Orwell was speaking of Dickensian London, the center of the earth in the same sense that the belly is the center of the body—a city of consumers. He may just...
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