Christopher Hitchens is obviously not TAC’s ideological bedfellow–heavens forbid. But when he steers clear of political or anti-religious propaganda and writes about literature, the older Hitchens does produce some utterly brilliant, persuasive stuff.

Here is a masterful essay on Brideshead Revisited in the Guardian, which includes a surprising attack on what he perceives as anti-Catholicism in Hollywood’s new film version of Waugh’s novel.

Could a shock conversion be in the offing? He moves in mysterious ways. God, that is, though I might add, having seen him wobbling down Connecticut Avenue yesterday, that the same could be said of Christopher Hitchens.