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When you look at the polling, there is overwhelming support for voter ID laws.

Voters, no matter which political party they're a member of, doesn't matter their race or ethnicity.

I think that's a common sense, security measure for voting.

So I think clearly what happens is such laws increase public confidence in the integrity of election process, so it spurs them to go out and vote.

This is your host, Scott Bertram, and welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale

College Podcast Network. That was Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the election law reform

initiative and senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation. We'll talk with Hans in just a few

minutes about new developments in the area of election integrity and new cases of voter fraud.

First, we're joined by John J. Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program here at Hillsdale

College. John, thanks for joining us. Hi, Scott. Talking today about Orwell. And it's specifically

a piece you wrote in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago and a work by Orwell titled, Omage to Catalonia.

The piece of the Wall Street Journal is called A Comrade in the Crosshairs.

Tell people what homage to Catalonia is all about.

When we think of George Orwell, the titles that come to mind, of course, are 1984 in Animal Farm.

These two legendary novels that he wrote in the 1940s.

But Orwell was a writer his whole life. He wrote several novels, was a journalist, wrote a ton of

nonfiction. And he wrote this really important book that few people have read or heard of called homage to Catalonia, which is about his experience in the Spanish Civil War.

And in this piece, I wanted to describe it, say what it is, and make the point that without this book, none of what comes later would have been possible.

The great works by George Orwell that we know and love,

those wouldn't have happened if he hadn't written this one first. It was a turning point moment

in his career as a writer. This did not sell well. By the time Orwell passed, it had not sold out

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