Category: Copyjacking

By George Orwell.

“Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell.

In George Orwell’s classic book Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes called “1984”), Winston Smith struggles to cope as a member of the Party where Big Brother sees and knows all and where the past is rewritten to create a fictitious present.

“Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.”

But you don’t have to read “Nineteen Eighty-Four” to see revisionist history in action. All you have to do is read the Freakonomics blog.

Now you see it.

Now you don’t.