Picking Up the Gauntlet (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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Originally Posted by bjkeefe

Is this the one you had in mind?

I'm sorry; as much as I may agree with some of Hitchens' views, I just cannot abide his bitter, dishonest nastiness. I went to this review with the hope that with respect to Ann Coulter, whom I generally view as despicable, Hitchens might make a solid argument. However, in my view he undermined whatever points he had to make by virtue of his unadulterated meanness, if nothing else. I'm sorry if he is unwell, as I have heard, and personally I wish him well; but what he writes here is just unreadable vitriol.