Today, as I often do, I purchased a copy of Vanity Fair from the magazine rack in my local grocery store.I'll probably never do it again, because this was the issue that had Christopher Hitchens last article in it. He was always the reason I read Vanity Fair. Without him, it will just be GQ for pseudo-intellectuals.

There was also a memorial piece ( Read more... )

Christopher Hitchens first came to my attention during the Clinton years when he was one of the president's chief critics. He was unusual in that most of Clinton's critics were conservatives, whereas Hitchens was a writer for the Nation and a self-proclaimed Trotskyist. He didn't just criticize. He testified at the Clinton impeachment hearings that ( Read more... )

I recently read, in fairly quick succession, three books that deal with the importance of being your own person. They  are How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World by Harry Browne, Letters To A Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens, and Anthem by Ayn Rand. I would recommend any of these three, but I would recommend all three even more strongly. ( Read more... )

Christopher Hitchens is one of my favorite writers. He is very eloquent and an independent thinker. He aligns himself with the left and has pretty good leftist credentials (such as having written for The Nation for many years). On the other hand, he has taken positions that most on the left find heretical. He has gone after such heroes of the left ( Read more... )