Hitchens has a Razor Apparently
Christopher Hitchens had no qualms expressing contempt for people and things he disliked so I am sure he would appreciate my candor in saying that, as a man who endorsed Rudy Giuliani in 2008 and defended the genocide of indigenous Americans, I think him a scurvy fellow. I say that as one pugilist to another knowing him to be a man who relished an exchange of insults in the fine British literary tradition. Now that the initial un-pleasantries are out of the way, however, let me give him a spot of credit. Hitchens has a fan base of people who lament him and complain of how the world has gone grey with his untimely passing. This, I suppose, is because he wrote well. I myself would forgive a man a great deal for writing well. I have long ago forgiven Kipling and Claudel, as Auden counselled, and indeed much worse men than they. Someday I may even forgive Hitchens for the sake of his admirable writing on Lord Nelson. Before that reconciliation takes place however, I hav...