Here's a great piece by Ron Rosenbaum on Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan, "the Men who Would be Orwell." He rightly gives Sullivan's blog a great deal of credit as a powerful force for influencing public opinion and changing the face of opinion journalism, though he seems unaware of the massive warblog phenomenon. (Honestly, how can you approach this issue without even mentioning InstaPundit?) There are also some insightful comparisons between Orwell's age and ours. It's worth reading. Question: is he right that Hitchens coined the phrase "Islamo-fascist?" I seem to recall it being part of the politicritical vocabulary even before Hitchens's important post-911 columns...
Posted by Dr. Frank at January 10, 2002 09:59 AM | TrackBack