George Orwell in 1944:
“The thing that strikes me more and more—and it strikes a lot of other people, too—is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time.”
A perennial lesson: Useful political commentary is as much a matter of character as it is of informed intelligence.
Source: George Orwell, “As I Please,” December 8, 1944. Related: Orwell’s classic The Road to Wigan Pier, in the Philosophers, Explained series: