[skeeter]

I remember Hitchens being particularly nasty to Reagan during the 80's, but I have to admit I thoroughly enjoy his writing in recent times when he has turned his guns on those who've deserved it.

I would've hoping he'd manage to hold his tongue on the occasion of The Great One's passing. Guess I'd given him a little too much credit.

[alloysteel]

Christopher Hitchens is what he has always been, a left-of-center iconoclast. From where he sat, the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001" and Ronaldus Magnus had similar profiles. And this troubled Hitchens, because he knew there was a distinct difference, but he could not see what it was. The failure lay in Hitchens, not in Reagan. So what was his interpretation? That, somehow, Reagan was "stupid". And we all know that was not the case.