Reading Orwell in the Age of AI
Prescient about the possibility of machine-generated writing, George Orwell’s life and work offer a deeper warning about the LLM era.
Matt Johnson
· 24 min read
George Orwell
A collection of 9 posts
André Gide versus George Orwell: Two Paths to Truth
More than a century after it was first published, ‘If It Die’—Gide’s shockingly candid account of his childhood and sexual awakening—remains a gripping read.
Jonathan Kay
· 16 min read
George Orwell’s Error
Had he lived long enough to witness the fruits of liberal capitalism, perhaps Orwell would finally have accepted the failure of socialism.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 13 min read
Orwell and Socialism
Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology.
Michael C. Anderson
· 7 min read
Politics and the English Language, 2023
The continued relevance of George Orwell’s landmark 1946 essay.
George Case
· 8 min read
There's (a Lot) More to George Orwell than Nineteen Eighty-Four
Orwell represents one of those strange cases where a writer’s reputation predominantly rests, if not on his worst, then certainly his least typical book.
Herman Goodden
· 10 min read
Songs from Orwell’s Glass Asylum
Bowie’s album beautifully captures the essential romance in the story.
David Cohen
· 10 min read
PODCAST 73: George Orwell's biographer on the 70th anniversary of his death
Richard Bradford, author of Orwell: A Man of Our Time, talks to Toby Young about why Orwell still has a great deal to teach us 70 years after his death. You can read Richard’s recent piece about how Orwell anticipated both Brexit and Boris Johnson’s election victory in
Quillette, Toby Young
· 1 min read
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson
The next three months, between now and October 31st, will reveal whether that was a historical premonition or a sophomoric illusion.
Toby Young
· 20 min read