Mark Falcoff, George Orwell, Our Contemporary—Almost

By Mark Falcoff Orwell—with all of the differences between his time and ours—speaks to us with authority and with renewed resonance. The current wave of cultural Marxism and postmodernism (amounting virtually to the same thing) that is prominent at our universities now threatens to bleed full-bore into our mainstream culture. This has caused more than one observer to liken the current American scene to something akin to George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Published in 1947, the book introduced several new concepts into the English language, the most recognizable being the reference…