"Don't Cross Over if You Have Any Intention of Going Back"

Politics and Literature in the Mind of Christopher Hitchens in an interview by Danny Postel

So the decision by those on the liberal left to attribute Islamic jihadism to faults of the United States-in other words, not to say, here's a chance to defend secularism against theocratic totalitarianism, but rather to dissolve that point-leaves the field to the conservatives, who will obviously do it.

The Common Reader Summer 2005