On the Uses and Abuses of Political Language
Why everyone in politics should read more Orwell, or at least heed Biden’s call for “No Malarkey”
George Orwell’s 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language,” is a blistering broadside against the academics, journalists, and politicians who employ deceptive and confusing language to obscure their ideological goals. Reading it today will make any writer cringe at his or her poor skills and violations of normal language use. It will shame any adv…
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