{"id":63754,"date":"2026-03-01T16:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63754"},"modified":"2026-03-01T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:23:19","slug":"why-you-should-reread-1984-by-george-orwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63754","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Reread 1984 by George Orwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63755\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1984_by_George_Orwell.jpg\" alt=\"1984 by George Orwell\" width=\"1100\" height=\"1566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1984_by_George_Orwell.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1984_by_George_Orwell-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1984_by_George_Orwell-719x1024.jpg 719w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1984_by_George_Orwell-768x1093.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1984_by_George_Orwell-1079x1536.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Orwell&#8217;s dystopian classic never fully went away. But six years after Covid lockdowns returned it to center stage, China, mass surveillance and AI-generated propaganda make it more relevant than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Finish reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/why-you-need-to-reread-1984-asap\">https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/why-you-need-to-reread-1984-asap<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orwell&#8217;s dystopian classic never fully went away. But six years after Covid lockdowns returned it to center stage, China, mass surveillance and AI-generated propaganda make it more relevant than ever. Finish reading:\u00a0https:\/\/alexberenson.substack.com\/p\/why-you-need-to-reread-1984-asap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63756,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63754\/revisions\/63756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}