>Like Orwell, Hitchens repeats
>the banal claims of orthodoxy disguised as the lonely voice of dissent.
You could make a long list of such: Camille Paglia, Hilton Kramer...
>the "sub-literate" Raymond Williams
Eh?
>As for the notebooks containing the names of 86 suspected communists,
>which Orwell passed to the cold warriors in the shadowy Information
>Research Department, Hitchens regrets that "too much has been made of
>this trivial episode".
This wouldn't have anything to do with dropping a dime on Sidney Blumenthal, would it?
Doug