Ghost of a flea

Reactionary

Confused leftist, Johann Hari interviews ex-socialist Christopher Hitchens. Instead of asking Hitchens to come back to the left, Hari should consider returning to the principles on which progressive politics used to be based (via Daimnation!).

And then... It is one thing for George Orwell, brilliant man that he was, to oppose both fascism and Stalinism (and it is telling that Hari should think one of these terms belongs to President Bush at the other end of the seesaw of moral equivalence with the jihadists). But to do so without praising Winston Churchill is nothing to be proud of. Orwell could oppose Hitler and Stalin all he liked but without Churchill such opposition would have left Orwell in flight to the United States or on a short trip to a death camp. Hari despairs at the company Christopher Hitchens keeps. I despair at that element of the left so engrossed in its own rectitude that it can see no difference between elemental evil and the long generations of men who have protected us from it.