The Arabist

The Arabist

By Issandr El Amrani and friends.

Hitchen, Hitchens, Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens has a defender.

Reading this tribute makes his loss to the current hysteria all the more regrettable. Hitchens's desire to imitate his idol, George Orwell, took him to the point of fabricating his own Spanish civil war and his own fascism when there is but a relatively powerless, if occasionally deadly, threat in what he likes to call "Islamo-fascism."