No idea exists in a vacuum. I was reminded of this while flipping through George Orwell’s collected essays and saw a jab he took at C.S. Lewis. His beef was with some of Lewis’ radio talks—what eventually formed the final section of Mere Christianity.
Orwell characterized Lewis as enjoying some “vogue at this moment,” which permitted him to offer “chummy little wireless talks.” But he saw Lewis as dangerous. Orwell deemed the Oxford don a “reactionary” and saw his work as part of “an outflanking movement in the big counter-attack against the Left. . . .”
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