If you don’t like liberal pundits who are circumspect and critical of liberal idiots, you’re going to hate Christopher Hitchens’ collection of essays, Love, Poverty and War. Hitchens, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine, has published some of his best essays, and if you hate magazines that have about 12 pages of fashion ads for every page of editorial content, this book is probably the best way of getting insight from Hitchens.
My favourites chapter was “Unfahrenheit 9/11: The Lies of Michael Moore,” which was originally published in Slate magazine in 2004. Hitchens refers to Moore’s depiction of Iraq before the U.S. invaded in March, 2003: “In this peaceable kingdom, according to Moore’s flabbergasting choice of film shots, children are flying little kites, shoppers are smiling in the sunshine, and the gentle rythms of life are undisturbed.” Hitchens essays reminds me of George Orwell’s essays criticizing pro-Soviet socialists in Britain during the 1930s.
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