1. I loved Hitchens but it's worth noting that the entire trajectory of his career goes against the narrative Brooks is constructing here. The more of a reactionary crank Hitchens became, the bigger platforms he gained.https://twitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1286619122835619845 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Hitchens started writing for VF in 1992, well ahead of his crankiness. He told me one reason they hired him was because they desperately wanted to be seen as not trivial.
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The Vanity Fair column was mostly cultural and while the Hitchens of 1992 was no crank he was closer to the center on foreign policy (thanks to Bosnia).
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There were some strange divisions on the left around Bosnia. There was a purge of the New left Review editorial board that, though not explicitly about attitudes around Yugoslavia, ended up that way.
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ouch that LRB piece is unreadably overwritten - I gave up 1/3 of the way in
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Bottles of wine, plural, did not necessarily help his style ... became more and more florid
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First time I met Hitch was at his house in DC. I arrived around noon. He asked what I wanted to drink. I said, uh, dunno, a beer maybe. He then put away two martinis and a bottle of wine and then said he had to go write a column.
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