Christopher Hitchens
Ξ June 30th, 2010 | → Comments Off | ∇ Intellectual |
Christopher Hitchens is a British polemicist whom I’ve admired for several years now. I’m not always his greatest fan, as he’s an strident, almost militant atheist and proud socialist. But he’s also brilliant, witty, and a ceaseless defender of Western civilization. I don’t think it’s a reach to describe him as a latter-day George Orwell. He has alternately described George H. Bush as an imbecilic monkey and imperialist, but also defended George W. Bush’s vision for Iraq and the Middle East. He was a principled but far from simple man.
He now has throat cancer. He was well known for his fondness of cigarettes and drink, and unfortunately those vices that helped to define him now appear to have caught up to him. I hope he’ll forgive me if I wish him godspeed in recovery.
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