Reader’s Voice: Relevance of Orwell’s 1984, here and now

August 16, 2026Dear editor; The impact of George Orwell’s novel “1984” reverberates with more force today than when it was written in 1948, two years before he died of tuberculosis on a remote Scottish island. The novel draws from his experiences and reflects the tumultuous times in which he lived: European fascism and Japanese militarism…