So Long, Fellow Travelers (Hitchens history lesson in the Sunday Washington Post)

Washington Post ^ | 10-19-2002 | Christopher Hitchens

[VaMarVet]

Thanks for pinging me on this one. Good read.

[aculeus]

Ping.

[dirtboy]

Here's a couple, the first is, I believe, Hitch's last column for the Nation, the second an analysis of the matter:

Christopher Hitchens: Taking Sides
Christopher Hitchens quits Nation

[dirtboy]

So Hitchens still appears to be a liberal but seems to have overcome the liberal mentality - interesting!

I don't even think's it's a matter of liberal mentality - there used to be a lot of liberals who could present their arguments in a coherent manner and were proud Americans. Now, a virulent anti-Americanism has taken over most liberal institutions, and that is what Hitch is against.

[Man of the Right]

Hitchens' journey to the right continues.

One day he'll wake up like David Horowitz and realize he's a conservative. Meanwhile, he take ideosyncratic, mostly conservative positions, but claims not to like conservatives.

[SolitaryMan]

Thansk for the links, interesting article's. I don't like his socialistic politics, but I do like his honesty.

[Orual]

Excellent article. Hitchens uses imagery so effectively. Love his writing.

George Galloway, who is never happier than when writing moist profiles of Saddam and who says that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the worst moment of his life.

There is, of course, a soggier periphery of more generally pacifist types, whose preferred method of argument about regime change is subject change.

[eddie willers]

there used to be a lot of liberals who could present their arguments in a coherent manner and were proud Americans. Now, a virulent anti-Americanism has taken over most liberal institutions, and that is what Hitch is against.

I love this question pulled from the article:

And since when is the Left supposed to argue for preservation of the status quo?

[Maigret]

Can anyone tell me how to bring this article up? Every approach asks me for my gender, birth year and zip code and even though I enter the info, the page it then sends me to is blank.

[ForGod'sSake]

Can anyone tell me how to bring this article up? Every approach asks me for my gender, birth year and zip code and even though I enter the info, the page it then sends me to is blank.

Well, I got to the dance a week late, but I can't pull up the article either. Maybe the ComPost felt it was to inflammatory???

Interesting follow on: How The Left Deals With Its Dissenters (Warning, Graphic language)

FGS

[ForGod'sSake]

oops; TOP of article ; )

FGS

[ForGod'sSake]

FYI Maigret....if you'll click on the printable version in the link at the top of this thread, you can get the complete article...

FGS

[Maigret]

Thanks, the only way I could get it to come in was to click on the 'printable' form of it.