Orwell was free from doctrinaire sectarianism. At the same time, he firmly hated the exact bastards who deserve to be hated.
Ed Simon
Ed Simon is a staff writer at The Millions. His book An Alternative History of Pittsburgh (2021) is available from Belt Publishing. Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology (2022) will be available this winter from Abrams. 
“Hopelessness Makes Possible a New Hope”
Though it’s more than a hundred miles from the coast, during the early evening of October 29, 2012, my apartment in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, had the salty ...