15 days ago
The American Conservative
Today, Orwell is something close to a secular saint, and “Politics and the English Language” is probably his most famous essay. Unlike DiAngelo, Kendi doesn’t write like someone trying to flunk the Turing test, but that doesn’t mean he’s a pleasure to read. His work is littered with exactly the kind of dying metaphors, pretentious diction, and vague language that Orwell condemned eight decades ago. As local newspapers and small magazines have gone out of business, the behemoths like the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the New Yorker, have become more selective in their hiring. Ninety-three percent of New York Times readers have finished college, as have more than 70 percent of NPR listeners.
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