1984

George Orwell · first published 1949

Mentioned 24 time(s) by 18 guest(s): 2 recommend.

Jeff Kaplan on Lex Fridman Podcast (2026-03-13): mention
“…I’ve been reading, you know, 1984 or Green Hills of Stranglethorn, and I think it’s amazing.…”
Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493
Cass Sunstein on Conversations with Tyler (2025-11-26): mention
“…I recently reread Orwell's 1984, and what staggered me about it…”
Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI (Ep. 262)
Dan Houser on Lex Fridman Podcast (2025-10-31): mention
“…I think 1984 with the fake wars…”
Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484
Dan Houser on Lex Fridman Podcast (2025-10-31): recommend
“…I love 1984. I'd never listened to it or read it, and then I think I did it on Talking Book…”
Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484
Doug Lemov on EconTalk (2025-07-28): recommend
“…I don't think I've read 1984 since I was assigned it as a student, but I read it this year…”
Read Like a Champion (with Doug Lemov)
Doug Lemov on EconTalk (2025-07-28): mention
“…if I don't know anything about George Orwell and 1984, I can't even have a conversation with you…”
Read Like a Champion (with Doug Lemov)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Lex Fridman Podcast (2025-04-24): mention
“…Some people would read 1984 and say…”
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao | Lex Fridman Podcast #466
Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Lex Fridman Podcast (2025-04-24): mention
“…You can buy 1984 in a Chinese bookstore.…”
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao | Lex Fridman Podcast #466
Niall Ferguson on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-11-16): mention
“…if you want to get to Orwell, don't just read Animal Farm and 1984…”
Niall Ferguson, Historian — The Coming Cold War II, Visible and Invisible Geopolitics, Why Even Atheists Should Study Religion, Masters of Paradox, Fatherhood, Fear, and More (#634)
Max Tegmark on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2022-07-01): mention
“…Otherwise, I see us being on a fast track back into this really nice book written by your countryman, George.…”
Max Tegmark on how a ‘put-up-or-shut-up’ resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection
Michael Munger on EconTalk (2022-04-25): mention
“…the book 1984 is clearly that sort of constant surveillance of everyone…”
Michael Munger on Antitrust
Margaret Atwood on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-02-24): mention
“…So I read 1984 just after it came out.…”
Margaret Atwood — A Living Legend on Creative Process, The Handmaid’s Tale, Being a Mercenary Child, Resisting Labels, the Poet Rug Exchange, Liminal Beings, Burning Questions, Practical Utopias, and More (#573)
Russ Roberts on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-11-03): mention
“…the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, all the way back in 2009…”
Russ Roberts on whether it’s more effective to help strangers, or people you know
Yuval Noah Harari on The Tim Ferriss Show (2020-10-30): mention
“…like its brother book 1984, it’s a very simple book in this sense…”
Yuval Noah Harari on The Story of Sapiens, Forging the Skill of Awareness, and The Power of Disguised Books(#477)
A.J. Jacobs on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-06-01): mention
“…I like “1984”, which my kids are reading now.…”
A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles
Bryan Caplan on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2018-05-22): mention
“…It's the inspiration for 1984, where 1984 the world is divided between three totalitarian governments with perpetual peace.…”
Economist Bryan Caplan thinks education is mostly pointless showing off. We test the strength of his case.
Toby Ord on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2017-09-06): mention
“…Orwell's 1984 is basically set up exactly to do that…”
Toby Ord on why the long-term future of humanity matters more than anything else, and what we should do about it
Thomas Ricks on EconTalk (2017-06-19): mention
“…Orwell has an eerie description in 1984 of war occurring in distant places…”
Thomas Ricks on Churchill and Orwell
Thomas Ricks on EconTalk (2017-06-19): mention
“…Harold Bloom called 1984 the 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' of the Cold War.…”
Thomas Ricks on Churchill and Orwell
Thomas Ricks on EconTalk (2017-06-19): mention
“…there are 13 translations of 1984 into Chinese…”
Thomas Ricks on Churchill and Orwell
Thomas Ricks on EconTalk (2017-06-19): mention
“…the great phrases, sentences, out of Animal Farm, and especially 1984…”
Thomas Ricks on Churchill and Orwell
McArdle on EconTalk (2014-06-02): mention
“…most of you know him as the author of 1984 and Animal Farm…”
Andrew McAfee, Megan McArdle, and Lee Ohanian on the Future of Work
Rs on EconTalk (2013-09-04): mention
“…which comes straight out of George Orwell's great dystopia, 1984…”
Capitalism, Government, and the Good Society
William Bernstein on EconTalk (2013-05-06): mention
“…There was a lot of dispute when 1984 was published about what exactly it was about.…”
William Bernstein on Communication, Power and the Masters of the Word