Book Review: Hitch 22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
Hitch-22 - Some Confessions and Contradictions: A Memoir - Christopher Hitchens Hitch-22 - Goodreads ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly Recommended One of the leading U.S. critics of the 20th century, Lionel Trilling noted long ago - " Intellectuals have tended to embrace an 'adversary culture’: standing against the state, against the market, against the establishment, against anything and everything but themselves. Conciliation and Compromise do not come naturally to them. " Christopher Hitchens exemplifies Lionel Trilling's "adversary culture" to an extreme degree, earning a 10/10 rating who relentlessly critiqued the power structures - British monarchy, U.S. imperialism in Vietnam, Islamic Fatwa on Salman Rushdie, Mother Teresa's piety , Henry Kissinger's realpolitik and post-9/11 "Islamofascism" - often aligning against consensus on both left and right. Who was Christopher Hitchens? Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) was a British American author, publi...