Why does Christopher Hitchens – veteran of the anti-Vietnam War movement, tormentor of Henry Kissinger and scourge of many a US President – begin his latest collection of essays with a number of largely admiring pieces on the Founding Fathers and other notable Americans? Is it conceivable that his critics are right, and that this ‘drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay’ (George Galloway) has completed the journey from radical to conservative – a journey made by so many ex-comrades? Could it be that Hitchens is now more blue than red, and that his face, as if stained by the commingling of the two, will soon turn that special shade of purple reserved for late-stage reactionaries? [More here.]
Sunday, September 11, 2011
On Christopher Hitchens's Arguably (Sydney Morning Herald)
Why does Christopher Hitchens – veteran of the anti-Vietnam War movement, tormentor of Henry Kissinger and scourge of many a US President – begin his latest collection of essays with a number of largely admiring pieces on the Founding Fathers and other notable Americans? Is it conceivable that his critics are right, and that this ‘drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay’ (George Galloway) has completed the journey from radical to conservative – a journey made by so many ex-comrades? Could it be that Hitchens is now more blue than red, and that his face, as if stained by the commingling of the two, will soon turn that special shade of purple reserved for late-stage reactionaries? [More here.]
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