capitalism, 5, 80, 86–87
CARDRI (Campaign for the Restoration of Democratic Rights in Iraq), 288
Carmichael, Stokely, 117
Carr, E.H., 323
Carter, Graydon, 346–47, 349
Carter, Jane Bonham, 167
Carter, Jimmy, 288, 386–87
Castro, Fidel, 110, 114–15, 117, 118
Cater, Bill, 151
Cavafy, Paul, 70, 179
censorship, 222–24, 272
Chalaby, Ahmad, 302–4, 303n
Chambers, Whittaker, 398–99, 399n, 407
Chancellor, Alexander, 231
Chandler, Raymond, 314
Channel Islands, 414
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 71
Chávez, César, 217
Chawton, 360
Chekhov, Anton, 399
Cheney, Dick, 346
Chertoff, Michael, 254, 255, 256–57, 259
Cherwell, 124
Chessman, Caryl, 207
Chesterton, G.K., 57, 199
Chicago, 213–14
Chile, 154, 182, 189, 199–200, 245
Chin, Edward, 260n
China, 118–19, 185n, 305
Chomsky, Noam, 95, 97–98, 237, 243–44, 394, 415–16, 416n
“Chris/Christopher,” 93–94
Christianity, 376, 379
Christie, Agatha, 313–14
Christopher, Warren, 274
Churchill, Winston, 37, 72, 79, 97, 345, 361–62
Church of England, 19, 34, 64
civil rights, 88, 90, 98–99, 210
Clare, John, 101
class system, 12–13, 67, 80, 86–89, 89n, 217, 226–28
Clinton, Bill, 106–7, 239, 274–75, 276–77, 296–97, 336–37, 395, 410, 412
Clwyd, Ann, 300–301
Cochrane, Thomas, 35
Cockburn, Alexander, 238
Cockburn, Andrew, 257–58
Cockburn, Claud, 124
Cockburn, Leslie, 257–58
Cockburn, Patrick, 124, 317n
Cohen, Nick, 307–8
colonialism, 42, 57–58, 100–101
Columbia University, 219
Comely, Sue, 132
comic books, 207
Comment, 73
Commentary, 389, 399
Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, 254, 305–6
Communism, 59, 84–87, 102, 122–23, 168, 183–93, 244, 372–73, 407–8, 419
Conquest, Robert, 134, 156, 169, 170, 173–75, 174n
Conrad, Joseph, 47, 60, 404
Conservative Party, 38, 43
Constitution, U.S., 252–53
“contrarian,” 336
Coolidge, William Appleton, 210, 214
Correa, Gordon, 319–20
Corvalán, Luis, 189
Costa-Gavras, Constantine, 23, 134
Coward, Noël, 153
Cox, Archibald, 224
Cox, Robert, 197, 200
Crapstone, 35, 403
Crowley, Aleister, 151
Cuba, 110–20, 419
Cuban Missile Crisis, 65–66
Cunhal, Alvaro, 184
Cyprus, 137–38, 180, 181
Cyrankiewicz, Józef, 370–71
Czechoslovakia, 88, 115–16, 118–21, 188, 332, 337–38
Daily, John and Linda, 321–27, 328
Daily, Mark Jennings, 320–29
Darwin, Charles, 65, 113
Davies, Norman, 361
Davies, Russell, 169
Davis, Angela, 407
Dawkins, Richard, 421, 422
death penalty, 68–69, 316n
Debs, Eugene Victor, 215, 236
de Gaulle, Charles, 183–84
DeLillo, Don, 279
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 386
Deng Xiaoping, 185n
Denmark, 272
Dennett, Daniel, 422
desaparecido (the disappeared), 193–97
Detroit, 215
Deutscher, Isaac, 368, 376–77
Deutscher, Tamara, 376
De Vries, Peter, 135, 139, 172
dialectical materialism, 80
Dickens, Charles, 34, 155n, 160
Dimbleby, Richard, 65
“dissident,” 336
Djilas, Milovan, 406
Dobrosielski, Marian, 123
Dosse, Philip, 143n
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 34
Drake, Francis, 35, 61
Draper, Hal, 217
Draper, Theodore, 217
Driberg, Tom, 151–53, 349, 356
drinking, 35, 129, 132, 150–51, 191–92, 350–52
Drumm, Máire, 146
Dubèek, Alexander, 110, 244
Dukakis, Michael, 289
Dummett, Michael, 262, 263, 269, 270
Dunbar, William, 7
Durkheim, Emile, 29–31, 95
Dutkiewicz, Rafal, 371–72
Dwight, Timothy, 256
Dworkin, Ronald, 343
Dylan, Bob, 80, 214, 220
Eagleton, Terry, 93
Eccles, David, 58
Eco, Umberto, 256
Eden, Anthony, 37
Egypt, 37, 154
Eighth Amendment, 252–53
Einstein, Albert, 195, 363
Eisenhower, Dwight, 45
Ekeus, Rolf, 301–2, 309, 319
Eliot, George, 72, 389
Eliot, T.S., 2, 124, 375
Elliot, Ernie, 145
Elon, Amos, 365, 366
El Salvador, 237, 259, 415, 417–18
Emancipation Proclamation, 252, 253
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 204
Encounter, 155, 416n, 418n
Engels, Friedrich, 80, 364, 419
entheos, 351
Ephron, Nora, 234n
Europa Hotel (Belfast), 147–48
Evans, Harold, 139, 151
Evers, Medgar, 205
Fabian Society, 67, 70, 72, 80
Fairlie, Henry, 79
Falkland Islands, 42, 201, 230–33
Falwell, Jerry, 227, 233, 237, 249
fascism, 100, 182, 244, 292–93
fatherhood, 338–40
Fedden, Giles Romilly, 28
Felt, Mark, 234, 234n
Fenton, James, 127–34, 144–52, 305n, 365, 391n, 421
Eric Gregory Award, 24, 154
Friday lunches, 168–70, 173
George Steiner and, 129–30, 131
Northern Ireland trip, 144–48
Oxford years, 83–84, 105, 131–33, 155
Paris photo of, 1–2
word games of, 130–31
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 216
Firing Line (TV program), 343
First Amendment, 222–24, 252
Fischer, Ernst, 407
Fitt, Gerry, 203
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 159–60
Flaubert, Gustave, 56, 83, 197
Fleet Street (London), 139–40, 150–51
Folger Shakespeare Library, 275
Foot, Paul, 149, 149n
Foreman, Jonathan, 347–48
Forester, C.S., 57
Forster, E.M., 48, 64
Freedom of Information Act, 222
free expression, 125–26, 222–24, 268
Freemasons, 44
Freitas, Michael de, 262
Freud, Sigmund, 183, 195
Friday lunches, 168–75, 409
Friedman, Milton, 106n
Fromm, Erich, 331, 349
Frost-Nixon (movie), 150
Frum, David, 251
Fuller, John, 128
Fuller, Roy, 128
Funk, Wilfred, 68
Galbraith, Peter, 300, 307
Garvey, Marcus, 4
Geiger, Ernst, 364
Gellner, Ernest, 372
General Motors, 215, 217
Gibbon, Edward, 257
Gibran, Kahlil, 18
Gingrich, Newt, 238n
Ginsberg, Allen, 242
Glanton Brethren, 67–68
Glaspie, Ap
ril, 290
Glezos, Manolis, 181
Gluckstein, Ygael, 173
god Is Not Great (Hitchens), 21
Goebbels, Josef, 143n
Goldberg, Jeff, 381
Goldblatt, Lou, 218
Goldburg, Robert, 401
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 112n, 189n, 232–33, 337
Gordon-Reed, Annette, 256
Gorgas, Angela, 1–2, 5
Gould, Stephen Jay, 248
Gow, Ian, 289
Graham, Katharine, 274
Grand Street, 353
Grass, Günter, 84
Graves, Robert, 4, 71
Greece, 21–25, 180, 181
green card, 239–40, 251–60, 342
Greene, Graham, 9, 119, 148, 155, 163, 174
Greenspan, Alan, 106n
Greer, Germaine, 269, 279n
Griffin, Keith, 221
Gromyko, Andrei, 332
Gross, Matt, 326–27
Grumberg, Claudia Inez, 195–96
Guantánamo Bay, 352
Guevara, Ernesto “Che,” 110, 113, 114–15
Gulf War, 289–93, 300
Habash, George, 390, 392
Haber, Fritz, 364
Haessler, Carl, 215
Haig, Alexander, 230–33
Haiti, 90
Halabja, 293, 393
Halberstam, David, 248
Halévy, Élie, 67
Halliday, Fred, 291–92
Halperin, Ernest, 369n
Hamas, 298, 390, 392–93, 393
Hamilton, Ian, 279n
Hammami, Said, 285, 287
Harper’s, 290
Harris, Frank, 236
Harris, John, 71
Harris, Sam, 422
Hauser, Frank, 14
Hauser, Gaylord, 18
Havel, Vaclav, 273, 305–6, 337, 415–16
Hawatmeh, Nayef, 390, 392
Hayek, Friedrich, 406
Hays Office, 340, 341, 342, 344
Hazelton, Fran, 288
Healey, Dorothy, 407–8, 410–11
Healy, Gerry, 88
Heath, Edward, 171
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 338
Heine, Heinrich, 217, 261
Heisenberg, Werner, 342, 344
Heller, Joseph, 73
Hemings, Sally, 256
Hemingway, Ernest, 4, 5
Henderson, Nicholas “Nico,” 231–32
Herman, Edward, 416
Herzl, Theodor, 379–80
Hewitt, Cecil Rolph “Bill,” 69
Hezbollah, 347
Hickman, Dorothy “Dodo,” 354–56, 357, 359, 361, 378
Hickman, Lionel, 355
Higgins, George V., 165
Hill, Christopher, 95, 203, 405n
Hilton, James, 69, 69n, 72, 76
Hird, Christo, 124
Hiss, Alger, 234n, 407
Hitchens, Alfred Ernest, 33–34, 45, 356–57, 358
Hitchens, Eric Ernest, 11–17, 32–46, 403
Americans and, 206
bookkeeping work, 38–39, 44
death of, 45–46, 354
lessons learned from, 39–43
in the Royal Navy, 33–39, 41–42, 43–44, 201, 375
schooling and, 13–14, 49–50, 56–57, 59, 77
Yvonne and, 11–14, 19, 20–22, 35, 40, 356–57
Hitchens, Peter, 14, 16, 19, 44n, 59, 81, 354, 355, 356n, 403–6, 410n
Hitchens, Yvonne, 10–26
Americans and, 206
desire to move to Israel, 20, 374, 380
Jewish background of, 354–55, 362, 374–75
marriage to the Commander, 356–57
Paris family visit, 341
schooling and, 13–14, 49–50, 55, 56–57, 59, 62, 77, 93–94
suicide of, 21–27, 29, 30–31, 155–56
hitchhiking, 213, 214
Hitler, Adolf, 12, 188, 306, 407, 408, 414
Hiwa al-Balkhi, 378
Hoagland, Jim, 302–3
Hobsbawm, Eric, 67, 134, 408n
Holden, Anthony, 151–52
Homeland Security Department, 251, 254
homosexuality, 55, 74–77, 103–5, 115, 152–53, 284
Hope, Bob, 4
Horn, Liz, 132
Horowitz, David, 216–17
Horton, Willie, 289
How Green Was My Valley (Llewellyn), 60–61, 71
Hoxha, Enver, 181
Hristova, Snejana, 325–26
Hughes, Robert, 390
Hughes, Ted, 27n
Humphrey, Hubert, 219
Husain, Rafed Fakher, 315–16
Hussein, Saddam, 249–50, 255, 260n, 281–320, 393, 396–97
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), 251
Indochina, 124–25, 128, 129, 222, 421
International Socialism, 148–49
International Socialists, 86, 88–89, 98, 99, 102, 111, 119–20, 134, 144, 156, 173, 179, 185–86, 215, 217, 308
Iran, 266–67, 278, 284, 287, 288, 289, 351, 390–91
Iraq, 260n, 281–329, 396–97
during Clinton years, 296–98
Edward Said and, 291, 397–98
friendships with Iraqi exiles, 298–304
Gulf War, 289–93, 300
Halabja, 293, 393
Mark Jennings Daily and, 320–29
Paul Wolfowitz and, 304–7, 310, 312–13, 314–15
“regime change” debate, 298, 306–9
visits to, 249–50, 281–86, 293–94, 311–12, 314–18, 339–40
WMD and, 297, 301, 309–11, 314, 319–20
Iraqi Communist Party, 285, 286–87, 303
Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998, 298
Iraqi National Congress, 302–4
Iraq Memory Foundation, 299–300, 300n
Iraq National Museum, 284, 307, 314, 397
Ireland, 144–48
Irish Republican Army, 144, 145–47, 406–7
Isaacs, Harold, 60
Islam, 266–67, 376, 379
Israel, 180, 284–85, 290–91, 332, 358–59, 380–84
Edward Said and, 395–96
Iraq war and, 306–7
Lebanon War (1982), 233
Yom Kippur War, 154
Yvonne’s desire to move to, 20, 374, 380
Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 240
Jagger, Mick, 109
Jakobowitz, Immanuel, 269
Jamaica, HMS, 36, 357, 375
James, Clive, 155, 156, 157n, 169, 170, 172–73, 175
James, C.L.R., 90–91, 91n
James, Henry, 97, 204
Janus, 7
Jefferson, Thomas, 255–56, 255n, 259, 405n
Jerusalem, 381, 387
“Jewish Question,” 353–59, 373–79
“John Evelyn” (gossip column), 124
John Paul II, Pope, 337
Johnson, Lyndon, 99, 116–17
Johnson, Samuel, 203
Judaism, 376
Kafka, Franz, 54, 337–38
Kallman, Chester, 23–24, 128, 153
Kapsaskis, Dimitrios, 23
Kashi, Ed, 293, 295–96
Katyn, 189, 189n
Kavanagh, Pat, 2, 3
Kazan, Elia, 411n
Kelly, Marguerite, 323
Kelly, Michael, 323
Kempen/Kempno, 361–67
Kennedy, John F., 65–66
Kenny, Anthony, 107–8
Kerr, Hamilton, 79
Key, Francis Scott, 259
Keynes, John Maynard, 64, 86, 281, 303
Khan, A.Q., 319–20
Khayyam, Omar, 351
Khomeini, Ruhollah, 268–71, 278
Kichler, Jerzy, 363–66
Kilmartin, Terry, 169, 170
Kimball, Penn, 219–20
Kim Jong Il, 320
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 98–99, 117, 193, 221, 260
Kinnock, Neil, 239
Kipling, Rudyard, 9, 34, 198–99
Kirkpatrick, Jeanne, 230, 231, 232, 236–37
Kissinger
, Henry, 124–25, 194, 221, 240, 284, 336, 343, 394
Kitchener Scholarship, 111
Klemperer, Victor, 384
Klinghoffer, Leon, 318
Koestler, Arthur, 32, 68–69, 80, 277, 277n, 380, 414–15
Kohl, Helmut, 233–34
Kolakowski, Leszek, 122–23, 192, 363
Kopec, Barbara, 189, 191
KOR (Komitet Obrony Robotnikow), 188, 191–92
Koran, 266
Kramer, Hilton, 417
Kramer, Larry, 176
Krauthammer, Charles, 269
Ku Klux Klan, 223n
Kundera, Milan, 176
Kurds (Kurdistan), 282, 284, 288, 293–96, 300–301, 303, 306–7, 318, 339–40
Kurón, Jacek, 89–90, 188, 189–90, 192
Kurspahiã, Kemal, 277
Kuwait, 255, 311–12
Gulf War, 289–93, 300
Kzar, Nadim, 286
Labour Party, 67, 78–79, 81, 85, 86, 137–38, 139, 176–77, 202–3, 308–9, 356
Laghi, Pio, 196
Laing, R.D., 89
Lake, Tony, 274
Lamb, Brian, 411
Lambrakis, Gregory, 23
Lapa, Miroslaw, 366–67
Larkin, Philip, 3, 80, 96n, 134, 162n, 170–71
Lasky, Melvin, 418n
Lassalle, Ferdinand, 364
Lawrence, D.H., 104, 126, 377
Lawrence, Gertrude, 153
Lawrence, T.E., 330
Lazarus, Emma, 256
Leavis, F.R., 169–70
Lebanon, 41, 233
LeFresnais, Ian, 167
Leibovitz, Annie, 389
Lennon, John, 109, 262
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Hitchen), 350, 411
Levi, Primo, 370
Levin, Lionel, 354
Levine, Eugene, 3–4
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 239
Levy, Bernard-Henri, 412n, 419n
Levy, David, 103
Lewinsky, Monica, 410
Lewis, Bernard, 391
Leys School, 63–82
liberalism, 186–87, 187n, 308, 411
Lincoln, Abraham, 253
liver, 32–33
Llewellyn, Richard, 60–61, 71
London Evening Standard, 139
London Review of Books, 397
London Sunday Times, 139, 151
Long, James, 125
Longest Day, The (movie), 43–44
Los Angeles Times, 320
Loving v. Virginia, 253
Lowry, Malcolm, 69
Loyola, Ignatius, 61
Lukes, Steven, 95, 258
Lutyens, Edwin, 231
Luxemburg, Rosa, 87, 173, 364, 377
Lynch, H.F.B., 281
Lyssarides, Vassos, 287
MacCabe, Colin, 185, 185n, 200, 264
McCarthy, Eugene, 219
McCarthy, Joseph, 59n, 237, 411
McEwan, Ian, 169, 175–77, 228, 249, 251, 308n, 341
McGuire, Barry, 99
McInerney, Jay, 230
McInnes, Colin, 261n
MacManus, Frank, 203
Macmillan, Harold, 43, 58
McNally, Brian, 229–30
McNally, Keith, 229–30
MacNeice, Louis, 14
McQueen, Steve, 216
MacShane, Denis, 200–201
McWilliams, Carey, 218
Magaziner, Ira, 107
Mahfouz, Naguib, 312, 313