Orwell speaks again to a world on the brink

Sunday's New York Times had a great piece on the publishing of the diaries of author George Orwell on the 70th anniversary of their writing.

The diaries are being published by the keeper of his writings, The Orwell Prize.

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Here is one citation that speaks to me and what I believe in with my blog. Orwell wrote the following about fellow British author Charles Dickens:

"‘He is laughing, with a touch of anger in his laughter, but no triumph, no malignity. It is the face of a man who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open and is not frightened, the face of a man who is generously angry — in other words, of a nineteenth-century liberal, a free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.’"

Orwell's political diaries will start running Sept. 7 and will feature -- according to The Orwell Prize -- the author's thinking at the onset of World War II and humanity's future.

Perhaps you'll find something in his diaries that will speak to you as the presidential election approaches, or as politicians of both major parties in America continue to betray.