Hitchens on Horowitz (was: Re: Michael Moore's Awful Truth)

[Michael Hoover]

Peter Kilander wrote:
> David Horowitz and Peter Collier, former editors of Ramparts
> They make a good fit with the
> diagnosis offered by Isaac Deutscher in his 1950 book The God That Failed.
> Speaking of a certain kind of former Communist, Deutscher wrote:
> "He is haunted by a vague sense that he has betrayed either his former
> ideals or the ideals of bourgeois society; like Koestler, 

isn't above Koestler's book (I recall reading it as such)?...in any 
event, as I've suggested before (maybe even on this list), Koestler 
was tragedy, Horowitz is farce...Michael Hoover