[lbo-talk] Re: My Hitch Piece

jeff schneier jeffthescrivener at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 9 17:41:48 PDT 2003


Sweet Jesus. What next? I'm afraid my old mentor is not the truth-telling Orwell he fancies himself to be. He's becoming a coarser version of Norman Podhoretz.

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I think a better comparison is with Conor Cruise O'Brien. Both H. and O'Brien are former socialists driven back to liberalism by, among other things, their experience with "terrorism". And in both cases, an element of their former viewpoint (a militant secularism -- more pronounced in Hitchens' case) both persists and helps to reinforce their new opinions.

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