For the ever more lost and meaningless Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens asks what has happened to Gore Vidal. Unfortunately, Mr. Hitchens doesn't seem to be interested in answers anymore and the entire article is nothing more than an elegant hissy fit, worth reading only to get a sense of how malicious, fanatical and good at insulting people the author has become.
There is an answer to Hitchens' impolite question, and it's simple, obvious and completely excluded from the article: Gore Vidal has gotten older, he's almost 85 years old and facing octogenarian mental deterioration while trying to write about a world where people in their 50s (Hitchens is 60) are out of the loop. Comparatively, to frame and assess the abilities of great athletes who compete long past their past their prime (Re: Michael Jordan post second-retirement) with no inclusion of the effects of age would be as shallow, stupid and deprived of judgment as what Hitchens does here.
What happened to pre 9/11 Christopher Hitchens is a much more interesting question.
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