Politics & Current Affairs — May 25, 2010

Left to Right

Once a darling of the left, Christopher Hitchens turned to support neo-conservative foreign policy and has written a new memoir about his political evolution.

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Once a darling of the left, Christopher Hitchens turned to support neo-conservative foreign policy and has written a new memoir about his political evolution. “So chief among Hitchens’ emotions by the end of the day on 11 September was ‘exhilaration. Because I thought, now we have a very clearly drawn confrontation between everything I hate and everything I love.'”

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