The day before this review was written Christopher Hitchens was insulted (‘ex-Trotskyist popinjay’ and other unrepea- tables) during a Washington press mêlée by George Galloway. This incident may remind those who knew Hitch when he was in short pants how famous he has become, how much a celebrity as well as arguably the most brilliant, versatile, amusing and original journalist of his time. (More adjectives on request.) When Hitchens takes on the veteran Noam Chomsky, young people now ask, ‘Who is Chomsky?’ Indeed one may guess from Hitchens’s hairy account of a sullen, threatening crowd of male Muslims pressing in on him in Peshawar, on Pakistan’s north-west frontier, after he was spotted haggling over bin Laden T-shirts in the bazaar, that they knew who he was. Indeed (again) they may recently have burnt their Hitchens T-shirts.
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