George Orwell and the Neoconservatives

American conservatives are not generally given to celebrating the political wisdom of English left-wing socialists, yet this has been the curious fate of George Orwell. From the very beginning of his literary success in this
country, the creators of the myth of the conservative Orwell would appear to have deliberately ignored Orwell’s own interpretation of his work. Although Orwell lay dying of tuberculosis while the American conservative crusade
gathered momentum, he insist...