Eric Arthur Blair's guest appearances

Eric Arthur Blair

Just the Best Literature

The Libertarian Tradition

The Learning Space

Henry David Thoreau

Friedrich Hayek

Thomas Paine

Ursula K. Le Guin

Lysander Spooner

Gary Chartier

Randolph Bourne

Ray Bradbury

Robert Nozick

Paul Johnson

Charles Krauthammer

Joseph Conrad

Karl Hess

Robert Anton Wilson

William Godwin

OwlTail

Host Dennis Leap discusses Eric Blair's adolescent years, his dysfunctional family life, his idyllic boyhood home in the picturesque setting of Henley-on-Thames, his difficulty making friends, and his tough years at St. Cyprian’s boarding school.

Host Dennis Leap discusses Eric Blair's adolescent years, his dysfunctional family life, his idyllic boyhood home in the picturesque setting of Henley-on-Thames, his difficulty making friends, and his tough years at St. Cyprian’s boarding school.

#198: Why Eric Arthur Blair Became George Orwell, Part 2

Host Dennis Leap opens the JBL summer book discussion series, "Blast From the Past,” with a biographical sketch on the man who became George Orwell, author of the prescient novel 1984.

Host Dennis Leap opens the JBL summer book discussion series, "Blast From the Past,” with a biographical sketch on the man who became George Orwell, author of the prescient novel 1984.

#197: Why Eric Arthur Blair Became George Orwell, Part 1

One doesn't have to read far into the works of George Orwell to discover that he had no understanding of economics whatsoever and was not personally a libertarian in the sense we have in mind when we use that word today...He was a permanently confused but authentically and radically antiauthoritarian democratic socialist. He was the kind of modern leftist few modern-day libertarians would have any trouble getting along with, making common cause with, collaborating with. George Orwell presents us with yet another case of a writer who was not himself a libertarian as we understand the term today, but whose last two novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, have earned him a place in the libertarian tradition.

One doesn't have to read far into the works of George Orwell to discover that he had no understanding of economics whatsoever and was not personally a libertarian in the sense we have in mind when we use that word today...He was a permanently confused but authentically and radically antiauthoritarian democratic socialist. He was the kind of modern leftist few modern-day libertarians would have any trouble getting along with, making common cause with, collaborating with. George Orwell presents us with yet another case of a writer who was not himself a libertarian as we understand the term today, but whose last two novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, have earned him a place in the libertarian tradition.

Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell (1903–1950)