Hitch on Hardball

[Liza Featherstone]

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
> 
>