Tag Archives: Christopher Hitchens

An anecdote here told to Hitchens by Huw Wheldon as related by an old man who (supposedly) had worked in the reading room of the British Museum in late 19th century and who, when pressed, remembered details of Karl Marx’s time there.It sounds rather apocryphal, but, still, funny stuff.

That is, Christopher Hitchens versus Peter Hitchens.[embedded content]Christopher Hitchens never knew that much about economics, apart from a shallow Marxist perspective, and he shows this ignorance here very well. He asked whether Ireland lost its economic independence by adopting the Euro – only a few short years before Ireland’s membership of the Eurozone utterly destroyed that country’s economic sovereignty in the aftermath of the global recession of 2008–2009, which for Ireland turned...

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) passed away in 2011, and he remains one of those iconoclast leftists, who, generally speaking, is either hated or loved. Worse still, it is widely believed that he went over to the right and deserted the left, and there are plenty of left-wing people who loath him for that.Quite simply, he was a complex intellectual and thinker. There was a good, a bad, and an ugly Hitch. He was capable of holding defensible and right opinions on some issues, and shamefully...