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Ep. 60: When Hitchens Broke With the Left

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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Christopher Hitchens: A World Class Literary Critic

Christopher Hitchens was one of the most prolific literary critics in history. He had an unbelievable knowledge of British literature and could quote Philip Larkin poems without even blinking after seven drinks. The best lines are sometimes lurking in footnotes, like the one I mentioned about the credit card and the weary man up on H22.

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