George Orwell Evaluations Mein Kampf: “He Envisages a Horrible Brainless Empire” (1940)

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Christo­pher Hitchens as soon as wrote that there have been three main problems with the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry — impe­ri­al­ism, fas­cism, and Stal­in­ism — and George Orwell proved to be proper about all of them. Orwell dis­performs his comment­in a position fore­sight in a fas­ci­nat­ing e book assessment, pub­lished in March 1940, of Adolf Hitler’s noto­ri­ous…

Hear the Very First Adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 in a Radio Play Starring David Niven (1949)

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Since George Orwell pub­lished his land­mark polit­i­cal fable 1984, every gen­er­a­tion has discovered ample rea­son to make ref­er­ence to the grim near-future envi­sioned by the nov­el. Whether or not Orwell had some prophet­ic imaginative and prescient or was sim­ply a really astute learn­er of the insti­tu­tions of his day—all nonetheless with us in mutat­ed kind—hardly mat­ters….