The Hit Farm

News and opinion about US politics from a liberal/Democratic/progressive perspective. Actor and author Stephen Fry salutes Christopher Hitchens as an inspiring polemicist but also as an abiding fan of PG Wodehouse and a magnificent writer. Almost as many words have been written about Christopher Hitchens since he died as he would write Last night the [...]

Everyone from Roger Ebert to Lance Armstrong took to Twitter after the passing of the famed essayist. Farewell to a great friend of Reason – and the world of ideas. The famed, controversial Vanity Fair writer lost his battle with esophageal cancer Thursday. The famed, controversial Vanity Fair writer lost his battle with esophageal cancer [...]