1984 links: Doublespeak

Doublespeak

Michael Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti. 2025. A Trump executive order sets out what could be a road map for retribution. Jan 25, New York Times.
Will Weissert. 2025. Trump has canceled Biden’s ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of ‘drain the swamp.‘ January 22, Associated Press.
Alan Feuer. 2025. Videos show pardoned Capitol rioters attacking police. February, New York Times.
Isaac Stanley-Becker and Josh Dawsey. 2025. Eight years ago, Trump vowed to ‘drain the swamp.’ Now he swims in it. October 11, Washington Post. (pdf)
Melinda Delkic. 2022. Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language. Nov 19, New York Times.
Ron Charles. 2021. Conservatives crying ‘Orwell’ are downright Orwellian. January 11, Washington Post. (pdf)
New York Times Editorial Board. 2018. The war on truth spreads. Dec 9, New York Times.
Christopher Flavelle. 2020. Conservative states seek billions to brace for disaster (Just don’t call it climate change). Jan 20, NY Times.
Jon Swaine. 2017. Donald Trump’s team defends ‘alternative facts’ after widespread protests. Jan 23, The Guardian.
George Packer. 2019. Doublethink is stronger than Orwell imagined. July, The Atlantic.
Louis Menand. 2018. Words of the year: What language can possibly be used to capture the upside-down world of 2017? Jan 8, New Yorker Magazine.
Margaret Atwood. 2015. We are double-plus unfree. Sept 20, The Guardian.
Los Angeles Times Editorial Board. 2017. Talking about climate change in Orwellian doublespeak doesn’t make it go away. Dec 19, Los Angeles Times.
Glenn Greenwald. 2015. The Orwellian re-branding of ‘mass surveillance’ as merely ‘bulk collection.‘ Mar 15, The Intercept.
Valerie Abrahamsen. 2017. Doublespeak and American ‘greatness.’ May 4, wisdomwordsppf.org.
Tim Wu. 2019. The oppression of the supermajority. March 5, New York Times.
Jason Stanley. 2018. Bannon’s deviant ‘badge of honor.’ Mar 13, New York Times.
George Orwell. 1946. Politics and the English language. London: Horizon.
Jean Seaton, Tim Cook and DJ Taylor. 2017. Welcome to dystopia–George Orwell experts on Donald Trump. Jan 25, The Guardian.
Los Angeles Times. 2017. Talking about climate change in Orwellian doublespeak doesn’t make it go away. Dec 19, latimes.com.
Stefan Kyriazis. 2017. George Orwell’s 1984 explains Trump: Doublespeak, alternative facts and reality control. Jan 27, Express.
David Barstow. 2017. ‘Up is down‘: Trump’s unreality show echoes his business past. Jan 27, New York Times.
Chi Luu. 2016. The linguistics of mass persuasion part 2: Choose your own adventure. Feb 24, JStorDaily.
Mark Peysha. 2016. How Donald Trump’s doublespeak really works–and is highly calculated. June 7, Alternet.
Patrick Cockburn. 2014. The secret report that helps Israel hide facts. July 27, The Independent.
Maira Sutton. 2015. The White House has gone full doublespeak on fast track and the TPP. Mar 6, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Rania Khalek. 2014. Calling rape by its right name. Feb 1, Extra!
Rachel Aviv. 2014. A valuable reputation. Feb 10, New Yorker Magazine.
Peter van Buren. 2012. Obama’s war on whistleblowers. June 12, Mother Jones.
Yves Smith. 2010. Administration bank tax plan: An empty populist gesture by design? Jan 12, Naked Capitalism.
Tom Englehardt. 2005. Entries for a devil’s dictionary of the Bush era. Mar 28, TomDispatch.com.
Tom Englehardt. 2005. Are we in World War IV? Mar 10, TomDispatch.com.
Tom McNally. 2008. How anti-intellectualism is destroying America. Aug 15, Alternet.
Katrina Vanden Huevel. 2005. Dictionary of republicanisms. The Nation, Dec 12.
Frank Luntz. 2005. 14 words never to use. Excerpted from ‘Learning from 2004; winning in 2006.’ Luntz Research Companies.
Chris Mooney. 2004. Beware ‘sound science:’ It’s doublespeak for trouble. Feb 29, Washington Post.
Barbara Ehrenreich. 2004. Feminism’s assumptions upended. May 16, Los Angeles Times.
Arundhati Roy. 2001. New world disorder. In These Times, Oct 26.
Sourcewatch. Doublespeak.
James Fallows. 2004. Annotated version of President Bush’s 2004 State of the Union Address. TheAtlantic.com, Jan 23.
Daniel Okrent. 2005. War of words: Dispatch from the front lines. New York Times Magazine.
William Lutz. 2004. Life under the Chief Doublespeak Officer. Online at www.dt.org/html/Doublespeak.html
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. 2003. Bush Administration’s Orwellian Logic: Anti-Gay Discrimination is “Civil Rights and Religious Liberty”. Commondreams.org.
National Council of Teachers of English. 2003. Doublespeak awards, 1975-2003.
Susan Sontag. 2002. Real battles and empty metaphors. New York Times, September 10.
Students for an Orwellian Society. Online at http://studentsfororwell.org/
Unquietmind.com. 1998. 17Aug98: What Clinton Said / What Clinton Meant.
Richard Garner. 2008. British teachers told to rewrite history of the Iraq War. The Independent, Mar 14.
Ruth Rosen. 2003. Bush doublespeak. Commondreams.org. Mar 7, Common Dreams.
Jacob Levich. 2001. Happy New Year: It’s 1984. commondreams.org, September 22.
Robert Burns. 2003. Rumsfeld: Iraqis Free to Form Own Gov’t as Long as It is Not an Iranian-Style Theocracy. Associated Press, April 24. Online at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-11.htm
Damronplanet. 2003. Doublespeak. Online at http://www.damronplanet.com/doublespeak/
Wayne Grytting. 2003. The Orwell Awards. American newspeak.
Bill Grigsby. 2004. What would Orwell say? April 15, Scoop.
Bill Grigsby. 2006. How Stephen Colbert got picked, truthy, and panned. May 17, The Scoop.
Richard Moore. 1996. Doublespeak and the new world order. New Dawn Magazine (Mar-Apr).

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