How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hitchens

A great thinker is gone; Christopher Hitchens--quite possible the greatest thinker of our modern era--left us this past week. It saddens me that I only now learn how great a thinker he was, for I met Christopher Hitchens--twice, in fact--but I did not really know him or his writings at the time, …

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Written by Sean Linnane on Wednesday December 21, 2011

Watch: Frum and Hitchens on C-Span

In David Frum's remembrance for Christopher Hitchens, he notes that the first time he viewed Hitchens as a friend was when they appeared on C-Span together: [A] few weeks later, I had my own face-to-face encounter with him.  strong> We were guests together

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Written by FrumForum Editors on Friday December 16, 2011

The World Loses a Light

Hitchens is gone. And the phrase that echoes in my mind is Nehru’s at the death of Gandhi: “The light has gone out of our lives.” For every young writer – and every victim and opponent of authoritarianism – there is now darkness. To Hitchens, there was no difference between the two: he …

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Written by Kapil Komireddi on Friday December 16, 2011

Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011

A friend of theirs once took Christopher Hitchens and his wife Carol Blue to dinner at Palm Beach's Everglades Club, notorious for its exclusion of Jews. "You will behave, won't you?" Carol anxiously asked Christopher on the way into the club. No dice. When the headwaiter approached, Christopher …

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Written by David Frum on Friday December 16, 2011