Orwell Anniversary, of Sorts
"A Farthing Newspaper," the very first of George Orwell's articles to appear in
England, was published on December 29, 1928, in G.K.'s Weekly. [Michael Shelden,
Orwell, London, 1991, p. 127]
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Orwell Paints Abortion in the Soul
In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Orwell describes the protagonist's reaction to the suggestion from the girl he impregnated that she get an abortion:
"That pulled him up. For the first time he grasped, with the only kind of knowledge that matters, what they were really talking about.
What's Joe Epstein Been Saying?
A few choice passages from The Ideal of Culture (2018) and Gallimaufry (2020)
The perennial need to be on the cutting edge: "Orwell wrote that liberals fear few things more than being outflanked on the left."
Writing about his undergrad days at the University of Chicago, which was