What Would George Say Now?  George Orwell has been dead for more
than 50 years, but his work and ideas continue to reverberate in
political debates on both the right and the left. With the
centenary of Orwell's birth this month, we asked several experts
to explain his enduring significance.  Scott Lucas, a professor
of American studies at the University of Birmingham, in England,
and author of George Orwell and the Betrayal of Dissent (Pluto
Press, forthcoming):  I'm very sympathetic to the viewpoint that