Hitch on Hardball

Liza Featherstone lfeather32 at erols.com
Fri Oct 18 10:49:29 PDT 2002


In his Vanity Fair column, he pretty much continues to be a leftist, writing eloquently against the death penalty and the Israeli occupation. Without the Nation readers to kick around - and the brief notoriety of quitting the Nation - I doubt his right-ward move will continue. But of course I could be wrong.

Re: the Nation, he wasn't pushed. At all. They'd love to have him back.

Liza


> From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:25:46 -0400
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Subject: Re: Hitch on Hardball
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gordon Fitch" <gcf at panix.com>
>> In a sense, I think Hitchens has always been a right-winger,
>> but has just been slow about coming to himself. The curious
>> thing, if any, is that it has taken him so long. There are
>> lots of people like that, and I don't understand the big
>> deal that is made about them.
>
> And thus proves Hitch's point-- how is he a rightwinger? Haven't heard him
> renounce a dime of social democratic values, even if he has become skeptical
> of what socialism would be at this point. On foreign policy, he still
> denounces the corporate intentions of Bush, even if he thinks the wars in
> Afghanistan and Iraq are justified for the democratic results.
>
> Was Hitchens pushed or did he jump from the Nation? It was obviously a case
> of both, as the immediate excommunication he suffered shows.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
>
>



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