[Free the USA]

A big bump for Hitchens. One of the few lefties willing to call a spade a spade instead of twisting principles to defend Clintoon.

[balrog666]

Hitchens is an unadulterated genius and I don't say that lightly. Unfortunately, he has bent that genius to perpetuate his own socialist (liberal) ideology instead of questioning it and examining its source and nature. I hope that someday he will transcend his own nature and achieve the libertarian enlightenment that would so enrich both his own life and ours.

[janus]

Then there’s the question of whether or not people can be made by government to behave better. They can certainly be made to behave worse; fascism is the proof of that, and so is Stalinism

He's still a hypocrite. Even here where he makes his attack on the philosophy of fascism, but lets socialism off the hook by only accusing the Stalinist form.