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Entry: Hitchens' Hubris Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/hitchens_hubris#2644 Post contents: Thank you for such an extraordinarily well-written essay. Hitchens’ role begins to make sense, at least to me, when I see him as a trickster. In Renaissance England, perhaps he would have found himself the court jester. The court jester-- as seen in Shakespeare’s plays -- often would say something brilliant but so brilliantly wrong that everyone else would marvel at how he twisted logic and words to come up with the conclusion. So when I see Hitchens on television, I tend to visualize him dressed in a harlequin outfit and, once I do so, I actually begin to enjoy what he has to say. And the value of his work is that it generates stunning responses, such as the one by Mr. Piatak. Of course, since Hitchens was one of the great instigators of our Iraqi invasion, I keep hoping that someone will ask him if he’d be willing to have a book signing in Basra or Fallujah. Maybe his brother will pose the question. That said, I cannot help but believe that if Hitchens is lucky -- truly lucky -- then one rough morning he will look in the mirror and realize the title of his next book. It may go something like this: Hitchens is not Great. How Christopher Hitchens poisons everything. Sent at: 2008 07 24