The last e-mail exchange I ever had with Christopher Hitchens was not, on the face of it, all that different from the others. I had sent him a link to a news story about an attack on the Paris offices of Charlie Hedbo, which had occurred in the wake of the satirical magazine’s latest elbow to the ribs of Islamic fundamentalism. A long-time defender of such magazines and their right to publish whatever they like, he responded with a characteristically short message of thanks. “Most interesting,” he wrote, “and alarming, too. Thank you for thinking of me.” “I hope the pneumonia has passed,” I wrote back. It hadn’t and he died within the month, three years ago today.
About six months later some half-wit tweeted: “I wonder what Christopher Hitchens would have written about recent events, asked no one ever.” In fact, I had been asking myself that question regularly, and I find that I continue to ask it still. What I wouldn’t have given for a Hitchens-penned obituary of Kim Jong-il, Hugo Chávez or Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. To have read him on the anti-Putin protests that erupted on the eve of his death, on Joseph Ratzinger’s resignation or the Egyptian coup d’état. (Hitchens was one of the earliest to counsel caution on the Arab Spring and wouldn’t at all have been surprised by the situation in which the region now finds itself.) From the French intervention in Mali to North Korea’s nuclear tests, the past three years have presented countless moments at which a little Hitch would have gone a long way.
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