As Orwell wrote in “1984,” his final, dystopian novel, “Who controls the past controls the future.Who controls the present controls the past.” Power, Orwell appreciated, allowed those who ...

Orwell’s “1984” ends with an appendix on the history of “Newspeak,” Oceania’s official language, which, while it had not yet superseded “Oldspeak” or standard English, was rapidly ...