Politics

Sheldon Richman on the Connection Between George Orwell and Friedrich Hayek

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The similarities between Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four author George Orwell and Austrian economist F. A. Hayek are not always appreciated. But as Sheldon Richman observes, both men showed great courage in writing the truth, undaunted by the consequences awaiting them. Both also valued freedom, though they understood it differently.