Nice riposte by Ross Douthat over at the Atlantic to Hitchens take on Obama and race. Christopher Hitchens is, quite simply, a bad mutherfucker. I found God Is Not Great to be incredibly inspirational and arguably the greatest work of polemic I've ever read. That said, there is point where contrarianism, too, becomes an ideology. I worry that he sometimes crosses that line.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2008/01/christopher-hitchens-rebuttal/5534/
