Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 — Obituary - NYTimes.com: Christopher Hitchens, a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell who trained his sights on targets as various as Henry Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa, wrote a best-seller attacking religious belief, and dismayed his former comrades on the left by enthusiastically supporting the American-led war in Iraq, died Thursday at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He was 62.
Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.
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I've read Hitchens for years. I'm reading his latest (and perhaps last) massive essay collection. Hitchen's death is a great loss.
Although as a conservative curmudgeon, I often, but not always, disagreed politically and did not share his antipathy to Christianity, I liked and admired him. He was a man of the Left (who strongly opposed "Leftist" positions he thought were wrong), who actually thought his positions through, changed them when convinced (which was not very often!), became a U. S. citizen on principle and could be counted upon to make unexpected and thought-provoking remarks. I recommend reading (or re-reading) Hitch-22 in his honor.
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