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To: koan who wrote (37881)10/13/2008 5:37:05 PM
From: nigel bates  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 149317
 
I think it would be more accurate to say that he has libertarian tendencies (though libertarian has slightly different nuances in the US than the UK).
I wholeheartedly agree with his views on the paramount importance of keeping politics secular - though not his contempt for religion.

He's a strange bird. Off the scale bright, but sometimes erratic in judgement.

He is above all a brilliant polemicist.



To: koan who wrote (37881)10/13/2008 7:49:21 PM
From: sspads  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 149317
 
koan, re: Hitchens, Yes he was a liberal while writing for "The Nation" up until a point. From my take, he jumped on the Clinton impeachment bandwagon. I stopped reading "The Nation" 3 years ago, but like Katha Pollit (spelling).


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