Kristian Williams: Kristian Williams is the author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America, American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination, Confrontations: Selected Journalism, and co-editor of Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency.
Introduction
"An Age Like This": Orwell in His Time, and Ours
Part One: Reflections on Orwell
1. "Imperfect Creatures": Letters and Diaries
2. "Not Too Good": Orwell, Wilde, and the Saints
3. On Common Decency
4. "Between the Bullet and the Lie": Ethics in Warfare
Part Two: Orwellian Reflections
5. "My Country Right or Left": Notes on Patriotism and Nationalism
6. "Strict Discipline Combined with Social Equality": The Question of
Revolutionary Leadership
7. "Meanwhile, What About Socialism?": Why the Left Fails
8. "Political Writing is Bad Writing": Anarchism and the English Language
9. The Tower of Babel and Other Confusions: A Reply to CrimethInc
10. "All but Hopeless": Pessimism in Politics
11. "The Struggle Would Continue, The Idea Would Continue:" The Spanish
Civil War and the Cultural Imagination
Acknowledgements
Appendix
Reading Orwell: A Study Plan
