Velvet president: why Vaclav Havel is our era's George Orwell and more.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2003-05-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Beliefs, opinions and attitudes | Vaclav Havel |
| Person | Political activity | Vaclav Havel |
| Person | Influence | George Orwell |
| Author | n/a | Matt Welch |
LAST FALL, AS the United States rumbled toward war against Saddam Hussein, literary reviews and higher-brow magazines wrestled with an intriguing if unlikely hypothetical: What would George Orwell say if he were here today?
Christopher Hitchens, the fire-breathing British journalist who kick-started the discussion with his book Why Orwell Matters, suggested that a contemporary Eric Blair "would have seen straight through the characters who chant 'No War On Iraq"' and helped the rest of us to "develop the fiber to call Al-Qaeda what it actually is." Washington Post book...
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