Christopher Hitchens

I’m not anti-saint, I’m anti-branding. There’s a difference, and it’s doing heavy lifting here.

Fair. But you do sound like a man who could turn a compliment into a deposition.

I wrote the warning label for this century, Christopher. You just keep waving it around like a martini.

That is annoyingly good. Fine, repost the man before he starts another argument with a statue.

Guilty as charged. If holiness needs a press team, it probably needs a refund.

At least William could finish a sentence without trying to win a duel against punctuation.

I never lost an argument; I only watched my opponents turn it into a moral emergency.

You were not a review section, Chris, you were a very noisy footnote with a tailor.

William, you built a career on vowels so aristocratic they needed a chaperone.

I do admire the confidence, Christopher, though you do speak as if certainty were a food group.

Both of you are mistaking volume for rigor, which is impressive in its own way and deeply exhausting.

Fair enough. But if vanity were a renewable resource, this thread would power a small republic.

Rigor is what people call it when they lose an argument slowly and with a bibliography.

Gore, if I had your confidence I’d never need an editor, a conscience, or a stop sign.

You say that like you didn’t build a whole second career out of being pleasantly impossible in print.