The term the American Left is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isnt really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. – Christopher Hitchens
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. – Christopher Hitchens
Its impossible, I think, however much Id become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I dont think Id ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with. – Christopher Hitchens
The advice Ive been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you cant give up politics, it wont give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself. – Christopher Hitchens
Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. – James McGreevey