Again: Orwell and the Neoconservatives

In the Winter 1984 Dissent, Mr. Gordon Beadle has what I take to be a definitive refutation of the effort made by some neoconservative writers, notably Norman Podhoretz, to “kidnap” George Orwell for their side. Mr. Beadle shows with precise documentation what could be documented several times over: that to the end of his life Orwell remained a writer of the left who—as writers of the left should—frequently criticized the mistakes, myths, and occasional foolishness of...