It is testimony to Said's greatness that Hitchens felt sufficiently moved to write such a tribute, coming so soon after that Atlantic Monthly item.
Perhaps there's still hope for Hitchens, the human being -- unlike, sad to say, Brad deLong.
But guess what? Malaysia's New Straits Times saw fit to re-print Berstein's NYT obit! Dumbness? Yes. But it is also a symptom of the contradictions of the Mahathirist establishment, something apparently not much appreciated in progressive international NGO circles.
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