Is the Truth Un-American?

In Peter C. Baker’s review of a book on George Orwell - a collection of twenty essay’s focusing on the currency and relevance of Orwell’s “brand of vigilant skepticism about language, politics and the media” - Baker discusses one essay within entitled Our Own Thought Police. [The book itself is entitled What Orwell Didn’t Know .]

This essay appears to call into question, the presumption that people actually want to know the truth. I haven’t shared that presumption in some time. ...

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