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Christopher Hitchens - October 21, 2002

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WHY ORWELL MATTERS

Christopher Hitchens
Journalist; Author, The Trial of Henry Kissinger; Letters to a Young Contrarian and Why Orwell Matters

Journalist and intellectual Christopher Hitchens explained to a packed house how George Orwell's musings on empire and political extremism resonate as strongly today as they did over half a century ago.

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