From Moynihan's bizarre archive of taped conversations and unused interviews comes this never-before-released (and never intended to be released) conversation with his friend Christopher Hitchens, recorded February 14, 2008. It's a wide-ranging discussion that ambles through history and the current political landscape...and includes an amazing Hitch line about Obama, community organizing, and Walmart.

- Republishing the Muhammad cartoons
- The left and the neocons react to the Rushdie fatwa
- Hitch's LRB piece on Rushdie and John Berger
- Against “axiomatic Palestinian Third Worldism”
- The main criticism of God is Not Great
- “I’d rather be boring than…”
- We hit upon a common chord
- Hitch votes in the DC primary
- On Obama
- Well, his read on John Edwards is, in hindsight....
- “Jerome something” (Rev. Wright and "ethnocentric piffle")
- A digression on Martin Amis
- Marvin Olasky the Marxist
- Debating Dinesh D'Souza (before his full huckster conversion)
- Lord Marchmain and Deathbed Conversions

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Special Dispatch #36: A Conversation with Christopher Hitchens

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Special Dispatch #36: A Conversation with Christopher Hitchens