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Like It Was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge Selected and edited by John Bright-Holmes Morrow, 506 pp., $18

When Malcolm Muggeridge goes to his eternal reward, he is certain to receive indulgence for having already endured an exquisitely Dantesque punishment on this bad planet. Through one of God’s lovely ironic match-ups of torture and temperament, Muggeridge, with his belief that history “is like a bad novel” and that all arguments are “rather futile,” was doomed to spend a good deal of his career writing editorials about the things of this world. Loving “everything which demonstrates the transience of earthy power,” it was his bread and butter to work up daily dudgeon over this vale of tears.

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Like It Was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge Selected and edited by John Bright-Holmes Morrow, 506 pp., $18

When Malcolm Muggeridge goes to his eternal reward, he is certain to receive indulgence for having already endured an exquisitely Dantesque punishment on this bad planet. Through one of God’s lovely ironic match-ups of torture and temperament, Muggeridge, with his belief that history “is like a bad novel” and that all arguments are “rather futile,” was doomed to spend a good deal of his career writing editorials about the things of this world. Loving “everything which demonstrates the transience of earthy power,” it was his bread and butter to work up daily dudgeon over this vale of tears.