Jun 25, 2010

How People Think...

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Ian Buruma reviews "Hitch-22 - A Memoir" by Christopher Hitchens.

Setting off with a quote from the book,
...the ways in which the conclusion is arrived at may be interesting…just as it is always how people think that counts for much more than what they think...
Ian Buruma explores just what kind of thinking goes on inside the Hitchens head.

Not flattering, if I get the tone of the review right- for Buruma writes,
"Protesting against the Vietnam War was not a bad thing to do, of course. But still sticking to the business of how rather than what Hitchens thinks, the peculiar tone of self-righteousness, combined with a parochial point of view, even when the causes concern faraway, even exotic countries, is distinctive."

Read more at The Believer  in The New York Review of Books.


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