Polemic (magazine)

Polemic was a British "Magazine of Philosophy, Psychology, and Aesthetics" published between 1945 and 1947, which aimed to be a general or non-specialist intellectual periodical.
Edited by the ex-Communist Humphrey Slater, it was "sympathetic to science, hostile to the intellectual manifestations of romanticism, and markedly anti-Communist. Eight issues were published. The first, published as a book to get round the prohibition of new journals imposed by war-time paper rationing, included contributions by Henry Miller, Bertrand Russell, A. J. Ayer, Stephen Spender, Stephen Glover, George Orwell, C. E. M. Joad and Rupert Crawshay-Williams.
Orwell contributed five essays over the life of the magazine and Russell and Ayer contributed four each. Other contributors included Philip Toynbee, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Dylan Thomas, Diana Witherby, Stuart Hampshire, Geoffrey Grigson, Ben Nicholson, Adrian Stokes, J. D. Bernal C. H. Waddington and John Wisdom.

Orwell's essays

"Notes on Nationalism"
"The Prevention of Literature"
"Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
"Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels"
"Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool"
Orwell also contributed an editorial to

Ayer's essays

'Deistic Fallacies', Polemic, no. 1.
'Secret Session', Polemic, no. 2, pp. 60~63.
'Freedom and Necessity', Polemic, no. 5, pp. 36~44.