HITCHENS RESPONDS

“Orwell learned, at Eton and in the colonial police, that the worst offense was to ‘let down the side’, or to be indiscreet in front of the servants or the natives, or to manifest any form of disloyalty. Thus, he was inured to the spurious appeals of group-think while still a Tory. Obviously, he wasn’t going to listen, later on, to the same public-school or regimental trash when it was uttered in party-line form by some Communist hack. I don’t think that this observation has been made before.” – from the Book Club Page. Your first batch of emails will be posted this afternoon.