With author thomas ricks. And later, another look at that discussion from washington journal about the trump administrations approach to Foreign Policy. Announcer this week on q a, author and Foreign Policy magazine blogger, thomas ricks. Host tom ricks, let up to the time that you started writing churchill and orwell. Tom i was saying a farewell to journalism for myself and becoming a fulltime book writer. I was wondering who would be remembered if any. Started with h. L. Minkin. I found his style raw. I turned to eb white. Style. Ose his concerns werent mine. Pearlman. I still dont see why hes funny. Hemmingway, blowhard. Then i picked up George Orwell. His prose style seems contemporary. It feels fresh. Ou could take a paragraph out of many of his essays and drop it into todays newspaper, and it would fit right in. I started diving into orwell. Why did he feel so fresh and contemporary. Him, i was ead of struck, boy, this resonates with our own time. Then i began thinking how orwell