> Pretty sure this is written in the passive voice. No. > (The New York Times book review didn't call it "the turgid, self-righteous and philosophically hopel

> Pretty sure this is written in the passive voice. No. > (The New York Times book review didn't call it "the turgid, self-righteous and philosophically hopeless ‘Politics and the English language’" for nothing.) Perhaps not, but I bet they supported that assessment with something more deliberate than a hand-wave to authority.