Wonder what Orwell would think of Brooks, Frum, et. al.?

To be a highbrow [writer] with a footing in the snootier magazines, means delivering yourself over to horrible campaigns of wire-pulling and backstairs-crawling. In the highbrow world you "get on", if you "get on" at all, not so much by your literary ability as by being the life and soul of cocktail parties and kissing the bums of verminous little lions.


The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white collar job ... and above all, with a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting.

Makes me think he might agree with the comments noted here.