The American Conservative
by Tom Piatak

There is no denying Christopher Hitchens’s skill as a public figure: he is seldom at a loss for words, sometimes entertaining, and occasionally even right. But he keeps getting important things wrong because, throughout his political wanderings, there persists a strange loyalty to an obscure bloodthirsty revolutionary and to the ideals of the Bolshevik Revolution. For Hitchens -- now honored throughout the neoconservative Right -- remains what he has been throughout his public life, a disciple of Leon Trotsky and a talented writer and polemicist -- perhaps the most talented polemicist the Bolshevik tradition has produced in the West...(for publication 10/10/05)

http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_10_10/article3.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp