Smelly Little Orthodoxies
Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 gave us many commonly-used phrases, such as “Big Brother is watching,” “thought police”, “newspeak”, and “doublethink”, among others. He wrote of “smelly little orthodoxies” in the novel and in a description of his imagined view of Charles Dickens: “It is the face of a man who is always fighting against something, […]