Summa Contra Orwell/Hitchens

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat May 25 11:50:59 PDT 2002


Ian Murray forwarded Andy Croft:


>Like Orwell, Hitchens repeats
>the banal claims of orthodoxy disguised as the lonely voice of dissent.

You could make a long list of such: Camille Paglia, Hilton Kramer...


>the "sub-literate" Raymond Williams

Eh?


>As for the notebooks containing the names of 86 suspected communists,
>which Orwell passed to the cold warriors in the shadowy Information
>Research Department, Hitchens regrets that "too much has been made of
>this trivial episode".

This wouldn't have anything to do with dropping a dime on Sidney Blumenthal, would it?

Doug



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