I’ll be leading a seminar tomorrow (oops! It’s already today.) on writing for the Cato Institute research seminar. The text that will provide a kickoff for our discussion is George Orwell’s 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language.” Orwell’s insights are useful today, just as they were over fifty years ago. I wish that I could write as clearly and powerfully as Orwell does in these essays.
Mr. Palmer,
I am doing a bit of research on Orwell’s Politics and the English Language for a graduate assignment. I would be interested to read the commentary (if any) from the discussion you hosted on September of 2004.
Thank you,
George Goodno
What he says is basicly that politics has its oun language that makes poor thoughts beautiful. That’s exactly right.