Authors: Christopher Hitchens
“Gertrude Bell: The Woman Who Made Iraq” (June 2007),
153
â58
“G. K. Chesterton: The Reactionary” (March 2012),
299
â310
“Ian Fleming: Bottoms Up” (April 2006),
97
â103
“Imperial Follies” (December 2006),
141
â46
“Mikhail Lermontov: A Doomed Young Man” (June 2005),
57
â62
“On Becoming American” (May 2005),
53
â55
“Orhan Pamuk: Mind the Gap” (October 2004),
29
â37
“Paul Scott: Victoria's Secret” (January/February 2008),
203
â9
“Rosa Luxemburg: Red Rosa” (June 2001),
273
â79
“Salman Rushdie: Hobbes in the Himalayas” (September 2005),
63
â69
“V. S. Naipaul: Cruel and Unusual” (November 2008),
217
â24
Audacity of Hope, The
(Obama),
230
â31
Auden, W. H.,
149
Aung San Suu Kyi,
150
Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF),
108
Axelrod, David,
230
Ayers, William,
232
Baden-Powell, Robert,
16
Bailey, Peter,
221
Baker, James A. III,
128
â29,
216
Baldwin, James,
229
Balfour Declaration,
156
Balkenende, Jan Peter,
194
Bamford, James
Body of Secrets,
111
The Puzzle Palace,
111
Banderas, Antonio,
3
Barnier, Michel,
259
Barr, Bob,
112
Bayle, Pierre,
193
Beauvoir, Simone de,
174
Beinart, Peter,
The Good Fight: Why Liberalsâand Only LiberalsâCan Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again,
115
â21
Belge, Murat,
263
Bell, Aimee,
183
Bell, Gertrude,
153
â58
“A Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia,”
157
Bend in the River, A
(Naipaul),
219
Benedict XVI, Pope,
139
â40
Bennett, Alan,
The History Boys,
141
Bergen, Peter,
111
Beria, Lavrenty,
143
Berman, Paul,
118
Bernal, J. D.,
28
Betancourt, Ingrid,
150
Bethune, Norman,
160
Bevan, Aneurin,
146
Beyond Belief
(Naipaul),
222
Bhagavad Gita,
68
Bhowani Junction
(Masters),
205
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali,
135
bin Laden, Osama,
132
Bitter Fruit
(Schlesinger and Kinzer),
8
Black and Tans,
93
Black Caucus,
230
Black Jacobins, The
(James),
223
Black Panthers,
111
Blackwell, Kenneth,
50
Blake, William,
317
n
Blue Nights
(Didion),
281
â82
Blumenthal, Richard,
271
Blunt, Wilfred,
158
Bobbitt, Philip,
72
Body of Secrets
(Bamford),
111
Boehner, John,
271
BolÃvar, Simón,
7
Bolivia, Guevara's death in,
7
,
15
â17
Borges, Jorges Luis,
166
Boston Massacre,
206
Boucher, Richard,
251
Boxer, Barbara,
120
Bradlee, Ben,
138
Bradley, Doug,
74
Brasillach, Robert,
150
Brideshead Revisited
(Waugh),
168
,
308
Britain's Secret Propaganda War
(Lashmar and Oliver),
19
â20
British Empire, end of,
141
â46
,
203
â4
British Empire Exhibition (1924),
92
British Museum,
239
Broaddrick, Juanita,
213
Brookhiser, Richard,
137
Bruce, Evangeline,
199
Bryan, William Jennings,
253
Brzezinski, Zbigniew,
200
Buchan, John,
155
Buchanan, James,
76
Buchanan, Patrick J.,
53
,
55
,
105
,
116
Buchwald, Art,
87
Buckley, Christopher,
233
Buckley, William F., Jr.,
73
,
137
Burdett-Coutts, Angela,
296
Burke, Edmund,
42
Burke and Hare,
160
Burns, John,
110
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Bush administration (W.),
107
â9,
111
,
121
,
127
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213
,
254
Bush at War
(Woodward),
255
Bush, George H. W.,
17
,
72
,
119
â20,
128
,
216
,
226
Bush, George W.
medal awarded by,
109
and Middle East wars,
106
,
120
,
227
and September 11 attacks,
109
,
226
and warrantless surveillance,
107
,
108
,
109
,
111
Bush, Laura,
226
Byron, George Gordon, Lord,
58
,
59
,
60
,
62
“Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,”
239
“The Curse of Minerva,”
239
Byzantine Empire,
238
Cambanis, Thanassis,
A Privilege to Die,
267
Campbell, Joseph, and Henry Morton Robinson,
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake,
165
Camus, Albert,
151
The Rebel,
149
Capra, Frank,
46
Carr, E. H.,
21
Carrington, Lord,
253
Carter, Jimmy,
118
,
199
â200,
202
Carter, John P.,
77
Casanova complex,
62
Case Against Barack Obama, The
(Freddoso),
229
â34
“cash nexus,”
1
lynch trials ordered by,
11
Castro, Raúl,
11
Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron,
161
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand,
21
,
274
Chalabi, Ahmad,
256
Chamberlain, Joseph,
95
Chamberlain, Neville,
95
Chandler, Raymond,
167
Chanel, Coco,
148
Channon, Henry “Chips,”
200
Charterhouse of Parma, The
(Stendhal),
20
Chaucer, Geoffrey,
305
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
(Anderson),
1
â18
Chekhov, Anton,
36
Chesterton, G. K.,
299
â310
,
318
n
on Distributism,
302
â3,
308
,
309
Father Brown stories,
299
,
307
â8
The Man Who Was Thursday,
307
and Marconi case,
301
The Napoleon of Notting Hill,
307
and Nazism,
308
â10
on paradoxes,
301
,
303
â4,
306
â7,
309
Paradox of Conservatism,
301
poems by,
299
“The Secret People,”
300
â301,
303
“Why I Am a Catholic,”
306
“Childe Harold's Pilgrimage” (Byron),
239
Childers, Erskine,
The Riddle of the Sands,
155
Chinese fighter aircraft collision (2001),
254
Chirac, Jacques,
96
Christie, Agatha,
Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?,
167
Christmas,
87
â89
,
202
,
283
â89
Christmas Carol, A
(Dickens),
287
,
293
“Christmas Carol, A” (Lehrer),
283
â84,
285
,
286
Chung, Connie,
138
Church, Frank,
111
Churchill, Winston,
92
,
93
,
142
,
144
,
153
and Castro,
100
and Congress for Cultural Freedom,
201
and Hungary,
144
Cienfuegos, Camilo,
10
Cities of Salt quintet (Munif),
29
civil rights,
198
â99
Clinton administration,
72
,
202
,
216
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act,
112
,
226
and election campaign,
216
and Schlesinger,
202
and TV,
137
Clinton, Chelsea,
216
Clinton, Hillary,
121
,
211
â14
,
215
â16
,
230
â31
Clymer, Adam,
245
Codebreakers, The
(Kahn),
111
Colefax, Sybil,
95
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, “Khubla Khan,”
36
colonialism,
145
Coming Up for Air
(Orwell),
312
Communism, fall of,
141
Communist Party
Condit, Gary,
138
Condition of the Working Class in England, The
(Engels),
313
Congress for Cultural Freedom,
201
Connally, C. Ellen,
48
Connery, Sean,
99
Connor, “Bull,”
199
Conquest, Robert,
273
â74
Constitution, U.S.,
105
,
106
,
108
Coppola, Peter,
189
Cortázar, Julio,
6
Coughlin, Father,
54
Coulter, Ann,
232
Council on American-Islamic Relations,
110
Craig, Daniel,
99
Crick, Bernard,
20
Croly, Herbert,
The Promise of American Life,
168
Cronkite, Walter,
244
Crosby, Bing,
285
Crossman, Richard,
26
Crump, Ed “Boss,”
43
Cuba
Castro revolution in,
1
,
9
,
10
,
12
Guevara in,
11
â13
legal currencies in,
1
â4
Ministry of Tourism,
2
Cuban missile crisis,
12
Cuban National Bank,
1
Cultural Amnesia: Necesssary Memories From History and the Arts
(James),
147
â51
Cunninghame Graham, R. B.,
158
“Curse of Minerva, The” (Byron),
239