George Orwell

Robert Kurz discusses the “implicit” “subtexts” of the great dystopian literature of the 20th century and reveals the “internalized constraints”…

A transcript of a 1995 talk in which Michéa discusses the continuing relevance of the ideas of the…

A provocative introductory essay by the author of Impasse Adam Smith that maintains that the Left, “which has always presented itself … as the…

Orwell's examinations of the conditions for the working class in the north of England prior to World War Two and how he became a socialist.

George Orwell's original preface to Animal Farm about unofficial censorship of the press in the UK, a supposedly "democratic" country. In a…

Not wanting to be concerned with money or a safe life typified by a house with an aspidistra plant, a copywriter quits his job to become an…

Tramping memoirs from Orwell, where he worked in Paris as a dishwasher and then travelled around London, going from one bedsit to another.

Erroneously considered a damning of collectivism, Orwell's allegorical fantasy is a critique of the Bolshevist and Stalinist regimes set on a…

A world with constant surveillance, perpetual war and a militarised police state, George Orwell's most famous novel was a warning against…

Orwell here distinguishes between patriotism and nationalism; "...the emotion I am speaking about does not always attach itself to what is called…

Orwell describes the unthinking emptiness behind the rhetoric spouted by the Stalinist hacks of his day: "... prose consists less and less of…

George Orwell's famous 1938 account of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War, from his point of view as a volunteer in the POUM militia.