On Christopher Hitchens
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George ScialabbaReally, one could almost get the idea that Hitchens thinks the antiwar left doesn’t care every goddamned bit as much as he and the neocons about the suffering of Iraqis.
On Naomi Klein
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Kim Phillips-FeinBy now, everyone has noticed the connection between Bremer’s disbanding of the Iraqi army and the rise of the insurgency. Klein alone has seemed to recognize a similar link between mass privatizing layoffs and a bottomless supply of desperate young men.
On Philip Roth
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Elaine BlairIt’s true that Roth hasn’t been funny lately. The humor largely went out of his work after Sabbath’s Theater, when he turned to writing historical tragedies. But never has the humor been so sorely needed.