[nortonham]

Hitchens is pretty awful imo. Tried to paint himself as some type of lefty, as he got older agitated for war and just drank himself to death. That, and the weird new atheist sthick....he was a good writer when he was younger, but he was a careerist more than anything else.

[keiferski]

Easily the most overrated writer of the last twenty five years, whose fame seems sustained by his chumminess with journalists and his preference for making loud, uninformed, combative statements that don’t hold up under much scrutiny. A man fit for the times, it seems.