A United Front Against Bullshit

"Just as one can never imagine Mr. Conquest raising his voice or losing his temper, so one can never picture him using an obscenity for its own sake. A few years ago he said to me that the old distinctions between left and right had become irrelevant to him, adding very mildly that fools and knaves of all kinds needed to be opposed and that what was really needed was "a United Front against bulls--t... ...at the very last plenum of the Soviet Communist Party, just before the U.S.S.R. dissolved, a Stalinist hack called Alexander Chakovsky had described me as 'anti-Sovietchik No. 1.' I must say I was rather proud of that."



Hitchens and his personal take and visit with Robert Conquest of the Hoover Institute. Since I've been unable to grab the attention of any FCP'er with this article yet, I've opted to change the title, hoping this basic marketing strategum will coax a few.