(CNN) Watching me read "1984," arguably the greatest dystopian novel ever written, in high school, my mother told me that it was a book that everyone should read not just once, but again, every 10 years. It certainly deserves a reread right now. Indeed, dozens of news stories this week have alerted us to surging sales of George Orwell's "1984" since the inauguration and even more so in the wake of Kellyanne Conway's now-infamous "alternative facts" gambit. Most media outlets have reported glibly on the figures, with some going so far as to compare the Amazon best-seller list (where purchases of "1984" have gone up nearly 10,000%) to a "political barometer" before making the obvious parallel between the Orwellian concepts of newspeak and doublethink and the words of Conway and actions of White House communications director Sean Spicer.Alexander J. Urbelis: "1984" is a novel that people should read, not just once, but over and over againHigh sales figures are just the surface of how relevant Orwell's book is for today's audiences, he writes
With such an _ twist, perhaps we will soon learn that the millions of elusive mystery voters all registered under the name "Emmanuel Goldstein."