Why Orwell Matters
by Christopher Hitchens
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Author: Christopher HitchensEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2003-09
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 211
Publisher: Basic Books
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Christopher Hitchens talks of Orwell in his invited lectures and at the New School in New York where he occasionally teaches, writes of Orwell in his books, and backs Paul Wolfowitz as a matter of Realpolitik on the second gulf war. One waits in vain to read a piece of his that, knowledgable as he is and not one to turn away from a fight, critiques the Pentagon, an institution that houses Wolfowitz (and many others) and which simply cries out to be critiqued -- and precisely on Orwellian grounds. On this matter Hitchens is no longer an expat critic of the American establishment as he was once hailed to be, he is a yes-sayer. In his silence is a complicit yes to any number of things the Pentagon says and does. This makes not only for bad writing (a gadfly who agrees?), it aligns his current thought with the likes of Kissinger, whom Hitchens saw fit to dispatch with in a book. And rightly so. Hitchens has gone to bed with the Pentagon too uncritically, simply because they talk about democracy and wage war against theocracy. I can find no better way than to get my point across regarding Hitchens and the distance that he has placed between himself and this book than to put it thus: Orwell would have disagreed with Hitchens on this one. And that matters.
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