Why Orwell Matters

by Christopher Hitchens

‘In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations’;

Time itself deals kindly with those who live by and for language.

But what he illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that ‘views’ do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think; and that politics are relatively unimportant, while principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.