In the 100th anniversary of George Orwell’s birth, there is still much disagreement over the man and his work. “Few would assert that Orwell the man is personally guilty of all the obtuseness that he is invoked to vindicate. Equally untenable is the position that Orwell was not responsible for his life and work. He did things, he wrote things, that can’t be explained away as objects of misinterpretation.”