[lit-ideas] Re: Top 100 Public Intellectuals...
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:07:31 -0400
Hitchens made the number 5 spot. They describe him as:
Christopher Hitchens
As a young Trotskyite, Christopher Hitchens made his name in the
1970s as a political writer for the New Statesman. After
realizing that he didn’t care whether Tony Benn or Denis Healey
became deputy leader of the Labour Party, he moved to the United
States in 1980, writing first for the Nation and later for Vanity
Fair and The Atlantic. A series of attacks on Mother Teresa, Bill
Clinton, and Henry Kissinger earned him notoriety, but Hitchens,
56, is now best known for his messy split with the antiwar left
over Bosnia and later Afghanistan and Iraq, and for his loud
support of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
In _Best American Essays 2002_, Hitchens has a piece describing
how 9/11 cemented his split (perhaps I should say "stabilized his
split") with the "antiwar left."
But the "antiwar left" ( a strange term that) topped the list.
Good old Noam Chomsky made the number 1 spot. It can't be for his
universal grammar thesis, which is increasingly regarded as just
plain silly.
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