In 1938, while recovering in Kent from a likely Tubercular fit, not long after his time fighting in the Spanish civil war, George Orwell wrote a letter to the playwright Stephen Spender explaining why he had previously attacked him in print. The letter--written 85 years ago--speaks volumes about our contemporary internet moment in connection with politi…
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