Without The Hitch

Journalist and public intellectual, socialist and socialite, atheist and idealist — the many-splendoured Christopher Hitchens has died at 62 of complications of oesophageal cancer. He explored his own illness and pain in his last columns, giving the lie to trite consolations like “what does not kill you makes you stronger”. Though he had been a prolific writer for decades, casting his mind this way and that, Hitchens became a celebrity in the mid-to-late 1990s with his memorable take-downs of the Clintons, his suggestion that Henry Kissinger be tried as a war criminal, his startling, strong attack on Mother Teresa, and most significantly, the abrupt rupture in his relationship with the Left.

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