As you may have heard, Christopher Hitchens wrote an article in Vanity Fair this week ruminating on the fact that a young man, recently killed in Iraq, may have taken one of Hitchens columns as inspiration for joining the US Army. Hitchens response to this event is occasionally moving, and I’m reluctant to trample into […]
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You might ask “How could it get any worse?” To that query, I reply “Mr. James Kirchick.” First things first, in accusing Eric Alterman and Matt Yglesias of nihilism for the cri
…or, “Is there anything that Bill Kristol says that won’t eventually find its way into Christopher Hitchens Mouth?“ China also maintains territorial claims against India and Vi
The “Fighting Words” description doesn’t seem to fit Hitch’s column today; he seems like nothing so much as a tired, beaten man, vainly grasping for relevance as he pushes out a few more paragraphs. I suppose he gets some mild credit for being the last man on earth capable of writing the following without irony: […]
This is utterly unsurprising. As Scott once said, there’s no need to sign the Euston Manifesto if you’re not worried about being a Stalinist; given this, it’s natural to find Chris &
No More Mister Nice Blog poses a question: According to Christopher Hitchens, what in the world today “stinks — indeed it reeks — of whatever horrible, buried, vicarious impulse unde
Behold: Peter Collier: Of all the public intellectuals that kind of snapped to attention on 9/11, only you and a few others — Victor Davis Hanson comes to mind — still seem to be on a war footing. Do you feel embattled? You feel chastened by the stuttering incompetence of the War on Terror? Has […]
You knew that Hitchens would have to respond to the Lancet study, didn’t you? I’ll refrain from excerpting, and rather summarize: 1. The Lancet Study is wrong for some reason. I don’