Theodore Dalrymple reviews Hitchens’ memoir

Atheism is adolescence, not very convincingly disguised as well-aged wisdom.

He writes:

The only religious people of whom he seems to be aware are the Ayatollah Khomeini and Jimmy Swaggart; he sounds like the barroom atheist who has learned, and never for an instant will let anyone forget, that many popes were bad men.

t would hardly be an exaggeration to say that, by comparison with Trotsky, Nicholas I was a moral giant…