Editor’s Page

In this issue of Dissent you will find, for the first time in an American publication, George Orwell’s original preface to Animal Farm. This essay, a product of Orwell’s difficulties in getting his anti-Stalinist novella into print, offers an axiom: tell people “what they don’t want to hear.”

Dissent thinks this is a good idea, especially in American affairs and those of the left. In our “American Questions” and “Arguments” s...