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Why Read and Write While the World Burns?

What George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis Teach Us Today

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“Everything one writes now,” said George Orwell in 1938, “is overshadowed by this ghastly feeling that we are rushing towards a precipice and, though we shan’t actually prevent ourselves or anyone else from going over, must put up some sort of fight.” For Orwell, fighting meant writing. It also meant reading.

But reading and writing—and for that matter, …

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