A Hitch In Time Writings From The London Review Of Books – Christopher Hitchens

The mere word ‘healing’, presumably discovered in a computer keyword search, had evidently been enough to recommend this otherwise completely inapposite verse. Then I got a call. ‘Hi. George Stephanopoulos thought you would know where that line about “the centre cannot hold” comes from . . .’ As a result, I had the vaguely surreal experience of calling the White House and, George being absent, of reciting the first verse of ‘The Second Coming’ over the telephone. The secretary’s computer clacked oddly as I spelled and explained ‘gyre’, and picked up a bit more speed when we got to ‘things fall apart.’

The repetition of ‘loosed’ after ‘blood-dimmed tide’ gave some difficulty, and then with a sinking feeling I heard my own voice saying: ‘The ceremony of innocence is drowned.’ If they pick that bit for the next speech, I realised, it’ll be partly my fault. So I gave especial stress to the lines about how the best lack all conviction, while the worst . . . ‘Will he know what this is about?’ she inquired, as if deploying all-American politeness on a slightly questionable but nonetheless registered voter.

‘Yes, he will. It’s a poem he asked for.’ ‘A poem? Did you write it?’ And what rough beast, its hour come round at last . . . 1kitap1.com/en Letters 22 June 1995 Christopher Hitchens’s bit of yellow dog journalism in which he attempts to link the Republican Party with American neo-Nazis is nothing but reverse McCarthyism. David Duke is a total outcast in the Republican Party in Louisiana. Some state law makes it easy for anyone to run on a particular party’s line; sinister types have managed to do it as Democrats.

As a delegate for George McGovern in the 1972 Democratic Convention, I can recall the vehement racism of the ‘Democrats’ who supported George Wallace, a candidate who won more popular votes in the primaries in 1972 than any other Democratic candidate, including McGovern. Hitchens’s suggestion that Ross Perot is somehow a figure of the neo- fascist right is absurd.

He supported the liberal Democrat Ann Richards against George Bush (the former president’s son) in the election for governor of Texas. His lawyer, who is Jewish, is the husband of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Perot endowed a chair for Ginsburg’s husband at a prominent Washington DC law school.

As for Huey Long, readers of the LRB should consult any number of excellent biographies for a more balanced view.

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(with Douglas Wilson) Hitchens vs. Blair: The Munk Debate on Religion (edited by Rudyard Griffiths) 1kitap1.com/en A Hitch in Time Writings from the London Review of Books Christopher Hitchens 1kitap1.com/en Published in hardback in Great Britain in 2021 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd. Copyright © Christopher Hitchens, 2021 Introduction copyright © James Wolcott, 2021 The moral right of Christopher Hitchens to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

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