Opinion

Now right-wing, anti-‘woke’ doublethink has come for George Orwell

Sandra Newman, a novelist, is the author of “Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s ‘1984.’ ”

Have you heard that the writer who invented the Thought Police has fallen victim to modern-day thought-policing? Perhaps not, if you don’t follow anti-“woke,” right-wing media, but in their telling, George Orwell is headed for the memory hole.