Christopher Hitchens

MRZine recently published a lovely piece by Richard Seymour about the psychopathy of Christopher Hitchens. For me, Hitchens has stopped being a bogeyman turncoat and become more of a curiosity. I get the sense that Hitchens is pulling some kind of Andy Kaufmann stunt on the world, and it is sheer brilliance. Or he is practicing to be a chameleon in the next life. Or he is some kind of razor-tongued alien sent back from the future to out post all the post toasty lefties who consider politics irrelevant and futile. Or perhaps like Dennis Miller, Hitchens made a cold, calculated (but misinformed) wager to be on the winning team...

And because Hitchens resembles and has some of the same manerisms as a very good friend of mine, Mike Wagner, I'm willing to cut him some slack. Sorry, Mike.


The wily, opportunistic Hitchens


The wily, principled Wagner