Political Speech
November, 2011
The English language is in a bad state, says Nick Tosches, and the hollow rhetoric and vague jargon of today's public figures are to blame.George Orwell wrote an essay called "Politics and the English Language," which was first published in the British journal Horizon of April 1946. It is still available in collections of Orwell's essays and should be read by anyone interested in the decay of our shared mother tongue, and especially anyone interested in the dissolution and mutation of...
