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Published · transcript-backedJeffrey Wasserstrom: belief
24 Apr 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao
“I think there’s a clarity to Orwell’s 1984. There’s a clarity to Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale, similarly, the construction of the elements, and she was a big fan of both 1984 and Brave New World, so there’s a way they go forward.”
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- Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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- Claim type
- belief
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- 24 Apr 2025
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Yeah. I think there’s a clarity to Orwell’s 1984. There’s a clarity to Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale, similarly, the construction of the elements, and she was a big fan of both 1984 and Brave New World, so there’s a way they go forward. It’s not exactly a sequel, but Huxley did write something called Brave New World Revisited in the ’50s. Yes, he did. Right. That’s in…
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