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Entry: Hitchens' Hubris Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/hitchens_hubris#2647 Post contents: I guess the only appropriate response to this is “Thank God for Tom Piatak.” Though most of the commenters before me would obviously disagree, Hitchens, at once droll, world-weary, over-the-top – and English, can be superficially attractive on, say, “Hardball,” or in some of his prose. But Tom Piatak saw through that long ago, see his October 2005 piece in the American Conservative. There, and in “Hitchens’ Hubris,” Tom shows how all the glib charm and facile argument can be, unless backed with substance, pernicious (a point made well, also, by the simian ex-schoolmaster commenter, above). I think the last paragraph in Piatak’s review is especially fine, and especially powerful. Sent at: 2008 08 30