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Hitchens seemed deliberately to choose enemies who could answer back, such as Henry Kissinger, the Clintons, Mother Teresa and Gore Vidal, while his friends could not, such as Jefferson, Paine and Orwell. In an age when opinion is customarily terse and glib, Hitchens was Georgian and orotund. His odyssey from International Socialism to Vanity Fair, from opposing the Vietnam war to loving the Iraq one, was accompanied by a shameless self-confidence and a fusillade of justificatory references.Christopher Hitchens: a fearless master-stylist and a pain in the neck
The Hitch remembered by Simon Jenkins
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