> >From the letters section of Alterman's blog:
>
>Name: Steve Simels
>Hometown: Manhattan
>
>Re: Hitchens support of the war. This is a bit of revisionist history.
>Hitchens first Nation column post-9/11 was a smarmy you-had-it-coming
>screed; when he realized that wasn't going to over well, he suddenly changed
>his tune, and people have let him get away with it. In any case, Hitchens
>position on any given issue is always about one thing-his moral superiority
>to everybody else alive. He's a fraud and a disgrace, and the Nation does
>itself no favor by continuing to run his drivel.
As far as I can tell from The Nation's website, his last pre-9/11 column was about Gary Condit, and the first post-9/11 was the nasty "Against Rationalization" column, with its sneer at the Chomsky-Zinn-Finkelstein set <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011008&s=hitchens>.
Doug