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George Orwell

Britain and the Intellectuals

A sentiment seems to have prevailed among the scribbling classes that Britain is in a general state of decline--intellectually, socially, morally. It's just not so.

Commentary

Jacob's Jottings: The Case of Fouad Ajami

Five years after the start of the Iraq War, most of its early champions have yet to be held to account for its spectacular failures.

Books & Reviews

You Had To Be There

A legacy besmirched: an ill-informed portrait of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

The Arithmetic of Atrocity

Counting the victims of communism obfuscates more than it clarifies.

Koestler and His Jewish Thesis

A malign biography of a flawed but hugely gifted man.

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May 25, 2013