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Article: Free Radical.(Christopher Hitchens)(Interview)
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- Reason
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- November 1, 2001
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Left-wing journalist Christopher Hitchens explains why he's no longer a socialist, why moral authoritarianism is on the rise, and why he wanted Margaret Thatcher to become England's prime minister.
In the roughly two decades since British writer Christopher Hitchens arrived in the U.S., he has emerged as a singularly insightful, provocative, and impossible-to-ignore critic of American politics and culture. His regular columns for the left-wing think magazine The Nation and the glitzy celebrity sheet Vanity Fair stand out in both publications for their clarity of thought and prose. He famously served as one of the models for Peter Fallows, the memorable dissipated ...