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"In Front of Your Nose" - Krugman discusses Orwell's 80 year-old essay
Here's a link to the brief George Orwell editorial quoted (page 122; free via Internet Archive).
"The point is that we are all capable of believing things we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time; the only check on it is that sooner or later a false believe bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield."
"In Front of Your Nose", George Orwell, Tribune, March 22, 1946