Long Live Hitch

  Mailer, Norman, 84n, 211–12, 242, 245, 249, 279, 279n

  Makiya, Kanan, 286, 298–300, 305–6, 396–97

  Malaya, 57–58

  Mallowan, Max, 313–14

  Malta, 9–11, 36–37

  Mandela, Nelson, 100–101, 164, 301, 338

  Mann, Erika, 153

  Mann, Horace, 4

  Manson, Charles, 241

  Mao Tze-Tung, 118–19, 332

  Marcos, Ferdinand, 305

  Marcuse, Herbert, 89, 217

  Margalit, Avishai, 383–84

  Marsh Arabs of Iraq, 282–83, 318

  martyrdom (martyrs), 31, 298, 344

  Marx, Karl, 80, 86, 96, 113, 151–52, 195, 343, 364, 419, 422

  Mason, Roy, 202

  Massera, Emilio, 196

  masturbation, 74–75

  Mencken, H.L., 227

  Mendelssohn, Moses, 376

  Menuhin, Yehudi, 69

  Meyer, Cord, 107

  Michnik, Adam, 192–93, 419n

  Mickiewicz, Adam, 369

  Mignone, Emilio, 196

  military draft, 106

  Miller, Arthur, 271

  Miller, Jonathan, 230

  Milligan, Spike, 298

  Miloðeviã, Slobodan, 412–13

  Milton, Harry David, 328

  Milton, John, 405n

  Mitford, Diana, 141, 143n

  Mitford, Jessica, 59n, 209

  Mitford, Nancy, 59

  Mlynar, Zdenek, 337

  Modzelewski, Karel, 89–90

  Moncrieff, Scott, 169

  Mondlane, Eduardo, 100

  Monsarrat, Nicholas, 36

  Montefiore, Hugh, 73–74

  Montefiore, Janet, 73–74

  Monteith, Charles, 24

  Moore, Michael, 249

  Moorhouse, Roger, 361

  Morocco, 180

  Morris, William, 338

  Morris, William Richard, 1st Viscount Nuffield, 94

  Mortimer, Raymond, 169

  Moscardo, Jose, 369n

  Moscow Olympics (1980), 170

  Mosley, Oswald, 141–44, 143n, 261

  Mother Jones, 226, 228

  Mount House School, 13–14, 35, 48–62, 63, 66, 404–5

  Mugabe, Robert, 100–101

  Mullin, Chris, 309, 310

  Murphy, Eddie, 164

  Muslim Brotherhood, 307–8

  Myers, Kevin, 145n

  Myers, Warren Powers Laird, 208

  “myxomatosis,” 360–61

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 160, 161n, 276, 367, 413

  Nader, Ralph, 236

  Nafisi, Azar, 313, 391

  Naipaul, V.S., 15, 90

  Nairn, Tom, 202–3

  Nairne, Sandy, 2–3

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 358

  Nation, The, 200, 218, 225, 228, 231, 234–38, 244, 249, 308, 396, 418

  National Health Service (NHS), 138–39

  National Museum of American Jewish History, 400–401

  National Portrait Gallery (London), 1, 2–3

  NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 87–88, 181, 332, 419

  Navasky, Annie, 234n, 401

  Navasky, Victor, 200, 225, 234, 238, 401

  Nazism, 36, 139, 332, 372, 408

  Neier, Aryeh, 223

  Nelson, Horatio, 34

  New Left Review, 124, 135, 168, 412

  New School for Social Research, 246, 331, 340, 383–84

  New Statesman, 18, 67, 134–35, 144–45, 151, 154, 172, 175–76, 200, 202, 218, 224, 281, 288, 300–301, 418

  Newton, Isaac, 65

  New York City, 212–13, 218–19, 225–30, 241–42, 245–46

  New York Review of Books, 245

  New York Times, 168, 177, 221, 233, 247

  Nicaragua, 264, 269

  Niger, 319–20

  9/11 terrorist attacks (2001), 241–50

  Nineteenth Amendment, 253

  Nixon, Richard, 106n, 124–25, 211, 219, 221–22

  Nobel, Alfred, 4

  Noel-Baker, Francis, 23

  Nogueira, Franco, 187–88

  North, Oliver, 231

  Northern Ireland, 144–48, 202, 344–45

  North Korea, 319–20, 349, 419

  Notting Hill (London), 261–63

  Obama, Barack, 193

  Obeidi, Mahdi, 314

  obituaries, 6–7

  O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 186–87, 187n

  Ochs, Phil, 99n, 187n

  O’Connell, David, 406–7

  Official Secrets Act, 222–23

  O’Hanlon, Redmond, 128

  Olson, Barbara, 242, 249

  Orwell, George, 1, 44, 54, 61, 72–73, 96n, 160, 163, 171–72, 185n, 191, 206, 207, 247, 248, 279, 295, 308, 328–29, 359, 386, 405n

  Owen, Wilfred, 71, 74

  Oxford.

  See also Balliol College

  Cambridge vs., 64–65

  Oxford Playhouse, 14, 17, 84

  Oxford Union, 95–97, 101–2, 111, 124–26

  Oxford University Labour Club, 96, 96n, 100–101, 132

  Paine, Thomas, 120, 328, 405n

  Pakistan, 249–50, 270, 300

  Palach, Jan, 31

  Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 391–92, 393

  Palestine National Council, 387–88, 395

  Palestinians (Palestine), 180, 269, 284–85, 287, 290–91, 298, 358, 380–85, 390–96

  Paley, William, 65

  Palma Inácio, Hermínio da, 180

  Pandora’s Box, 15

  Parker, Dorothy, 420–21

  Parker, Richard, 221

  Partisan Review, 258

  Pater, Walter, 104–5

  Pavese, Cesare, 28, 31

  Pentagon Papers, 222, 233

  Perón, Juan, 198

  Perry, Matthew, 127–28

  Perse School, 73

  Pettifer, James, 129

  Philippines, 305

  Phillips, Antonia, 165n

  Phillips, Michelle, 210

  Pinochet, Augusto, 154, 199

  Plath, Otto, 27

  Plath, Sylvia, 27, 27n, 353, 361, 362

  Plymouth, 35, 36, 37

  Podhoretz, Norman, 237–38, 269, 399

  Poetry Society, 80

  Poland, 89–90, 98, 122–23, 187–93, 361–73

  Pollack, Kenneth, 302

  Porter, Peter, 169

  Portsmouth, 33–34, 36–37, 43

  Portugal, 88, 100–101, 179–88

  Portuguese Socialist Party, 184–85

  Powell, Anthony, 47, 123, 135, 169, 335–36, 402–4

  Powell, Enoch, 98–99

  Prescott, William Hickling, 56

  Prest, Michael, 68, 73, 78–79, 100, 129, 132

  Price, Chris, 93

  Private Eye, 150

  “privilege,” 50–51

  Profumo Affair, 79

  Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 393

  Proust, Marcel, 338, 380

  “Proust Questionnaire, The,” 333–35

  “public intellectual,” 235n, 416–17

  Pusey, Nathan, 214

  Pynchon, Thomas, 176

  Queimada (movie), 149

  Quinn, Seamus, 258

  RAAS (Racial Adjustment Action Society), 262

  Raban, Jonathan, 312–13

  Rabin, Yitzhak, 395

  Raine, Craig, 158, 169

  Ramparts, 216–17

  Ramsbottom, Alderman, 79

  Ransome, Arthur, 57

  Raper, Peter, 77

  Rattigan, Terence, 70

  Raven, Simon, 76

  Reader’s Digest, 418

  Reagan, Ronald, 170, 193, 228, 230–34, 236–37, 269, 305, 419

  Redgrave, Corin, 262

  Regan, Donald, 305

  religion, 330–33

  Renault, Mary, 78n

  Renwick, Robin, 274

  repression, 78, 89

  Resha, Robert, 100

  “revenge is sour” rule, 68n

  Rhodes House, 100–101

  Rhodesia,
58, 88, 100–101, 177–78, 182

  Richardson, Elliot, 224

  Rickatson-Hatt, John, 347

  Ricks, Christopher, 80

  Rieff, David, 377–78, 401, 417

  Robertson, Pat, 233, 249

  Robinson, Mary, 273

  Rolling Stone, 220

  Rolph, C.H., 68–69

  Rosen, Lawrence, 312

  Rosen, Michael, 84, 126

  Rosenberg, David, 89n

  Rosenberg, Harold, 336

  Rosenthal, A.M., 269

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 199

  Roth, Philip, 380

  Rothschild, Amschel, 6

  Rowse, A.L., 105

  Royal Navy, 32, 33–39, 41–44, 144, 201, 232, 374–75

  Rugg, Percy, 79

  Rumsfeld, Donald, 304, 322, 323

  Rushdie, Salman, 9, 263–80

  Clinton White House visit, 274–75, 276–77

  Khomeini’s fatwah, 268–74, 278

  9/11 and, 249

  “Why I Have Embraced Islam,” 273, 279–80

  word games of, 264–66

  Russell, Bertrand, 70, 81, 134, 341

  Rwanda, 367, 386n

  Ryle, John, 263

  Sabri al-Hadithi, Naji, 287–88, 316–17, 318

  Sadat, Anwar, 386–87

  Safire, William, 194

  Said, Edward, 70, 131, 385–401

  Covering Islam, 267, 390–91

  Ian Watt visit, 47

  Iraq war and, 291, 397–98

  Kuwait and, 291

  leukemia, 394–95

  Orientalism, 390, 397

  Palestinians and, 386–88, 391–94, 396–97

  Saul Bellow incident, 398–400

  Said, Mariam, 387, 388

  Salazar, António, 88, 100–101, 103, 182

  Salih, Barham, 295–96, 302, 309, 316n

  Salinger, J.D., 208

  Salt Lake City, 215

  Samsam, Hoshyar, 294

  Samuel, Raphael, 101

  sanctions, 296, 297, 310, 319

  San Francisco, 215–17

  Sarajevo, 345, 412–13, 414, 419

  Sartawi, Issam, 287

  Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie), 261, 267–71, 278, 280

  Saudi Arabia, 284, 290–92

  Scammell, Michael, 414

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 220

  Schneerson, Menachem, 376

  Schneider, Mark, 259

  Schneider, Susan, 259

  Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 172

  Schwarzkopf, Norman, 292

  Scilingo, Adolfo, 196

  Scott, Hugh, 211

  Scott, Paul, 263–64, 351

  Seale, Delilah, 159

  Second Amendment, 252

  Sedgwick, Peter, 86–87, 89, 92, 358

  Seferis, George, 26–27

  segregation, 205

  Selbourne, 360

  self-slaughter.

  See suicide

  Serge, Victor, 91–92

  Seventies, the, 143–44

  sex, 89, 183

  Shahak, Israel, 392–93, 394

  Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 284, 295, 390

  Shakespeare, William, 27–28, 56, 78n, 105, 127, 327

  Shamyurira, Nathan, 100–101

  Shand-Kydd, Adam, 6

  Shaqlawa, 294

  Sharon, Ariel, 233, 306, 394, 396

  Shawcross, Hartley William, 269

  Shneidman, Edwin, 6–7

  Shute, Nevil, 57

  Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham, 253

  Singer, Daniel, 368

  Sitwell, Edith, 151

  Sixties, the, 80–92, 143

  Smith, E.A.M., 67–68, 68n

  Smith, Ian, 177

  smoking, 150–51, 342

  Snyder, Timothy, 371, 372

  Soares, Mario, 184–85

  Socialist Worker, 102, 120–21, 148–49, 223

  Soho (London), 134–36

  Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 170, 402, 407–8

  Sonnenberg, Ben, 273, 353, 362

  Sontag, Susan, 284, 395, 416–19

  Bosnian war and, 377–78

  9/11 and, 244, 249

  as “public intellectual,” 235, 235n, 416–17

  Rushdie fatwa and, 268, 271, 274, 278

  Soper, Donald, 67

  South Africa, 100–101, 108–9, 182, 237

  Soviet Union, 87, 91, 102, 118–20, 122–23, 184, 237, 332, 337, 407–8

  Spain, 179–83

  Spanish Civil War, 72, 124, 233, 328, 359

  Sparrow, John, 103–5, 121–22

  Spectator, The, 231

  speech impediment, 66, 66n, 70

  Spender, Stephen, 6, 24, 151

  Spinoza, Benedict, 392

  squirrels, 206–7

  Staglione, John, 265

  Stahl, Friedrich Julius, 366

  Stalin, Joseph, 91, 139, 188, 189, 237, 306, 372–73, 380, 407, 414

  Stanford University, 47–48

  Stanstead House, 360

  Stein, Edith, 363, 379

  Stein, Gertrude, 373–74

  Steinbeck, John, 351–52

  Steiner, George, 129–30, 131, 385

  Stephanopoulos, George, 274, 276–77, 395

  Stewart, Michael, 124–26

  Stone, I.F., 234–37

  Stone, Oliver, 249

  Strachey, Lytton, 74, 80, 303

  Straus, Roger, 235

  Strauss, Leo, 304, 353, 384

  Straw, Jack, 126

  Styron, William, 28–29, 29n

  Sudan, 244

  Suez Canal, 37, 58

  suicide, 21–31

  Supek, Rudi, 258

  Susannah Munday, 15

  Sweet, Teresa, 132

  Sycamore Press, 128, 130

  Syria, 319

  Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), 347–49

  Szmulevski, David, 368–71, 373

  Talabani, Jalal, 294, 316n

  Taliban, 250

  Talmon, Jacob, 382

  Tannenbaum, Chaim, 340n

  Tawil, Raimonda, 380–81

  Tawney, R.H., 68

  Thanayan, Yahya, 285–86

  Thatcher, Denis, 356

  Thatcher, Margaret, 43, 170, 177–78, 201–3, 289–90, 295

  Third International, 91

  Third World fetishism, 86–91

  Thirteenth Amendment, 252, 253

  Thomas, Dylan, 96n

  Thomas Essay Prize, 70–71

  Thompson, Edward, 101

  Thompson, Hunter, 221, 290

  Thwaite, Anthony, 133–34

  Timerman, Hector, 193

  Timerman, Jacobo, 115, 193–94, 195–97, 200

  Times Literary Supplement, 136–37, 156, 163, 239, 279

  Titanic, 247, 248

  Toer, Pramoedya Ananta, 313

  Tolstoy, Leo, 56

  Tonbridge School, 48–49, 63

  Tone, Wolfe, 145

  torture, 23, 54, 196–97, 202

  Tory Party (Toryism), 18, 38, 79

  totalitarianism, 91, 338

  Totten, Michael, 347–48

  travel, 179–200

  Tribune, 67, 308–9

  Trillin, Calvin, 234

  Trilling, Diana, 279

  Trilling, Lionel, 61, 387

  Trinidad, 90

  Trotsky, Leon, 87, 113, 190, 229, 303, 338n, 364, 376

  Turkey, 306–7

  Tute, Warren, 375

  Twain, Mark, 4, 207

  Twenty-second Amendment, 253

  Twenty-sixth Amendment, 253

  Uganda, 141–42

  Uhl, Peter, 119–20

  Ullman, Walter, 80

  United Flight 93, 242

  United Nations, Iraq inspections, 301–2, 310

  United Nations Association, 73

  University Challenge (TV program), 93–94

  Updike, John, 161, 219, 249

  Valéry, Paul, 275

  van Gogh, Theo, 257

  Vanity Fair, 247, 274, 275, 333, 346–47

  V
idal, Gore, 33, 75, 139, 153, 237–38, 238n, 245, 249, 343

  Videla, Jorge Rafael, 194–96

  Vietnam War, 81–82, 85, 87–88, 90, 98–99, 106, 130

  “Visit to a Small Planet” (Hitchens), 349

  Vlachos, Helen, 22

  Voltaire, 376

  Vonnegut, Kurt, 330

  Walesa, Lech, 305–6

  Walker, Martin, 106

  Wallace, George, 227

  Walzer, Michael, 242–43

  Warner, Marina, 284

  warrantless wiretapping, 255

  Warraq, Ibn, 390n

  Warrior, 36–37

  Washington, D.C., 234–38, 242–43

  Washington Post, 222, 240, 268, 302

  “WASP,” 226–27

  Wasserman, Steve, 401

  Watanabe, Teresa, 320, 321

  waterboarding, 166, 347, 350

  Watergate, 221–22

  Watson, Sean, 71

  Watt, Ian, 47–48

  Waugh, Alexander, 54

  Waugh, Auberon, 143n, 269

  Waugh, Evelyn, 35, 47, 50, 56, 102, 140, 151, 198, 212, 219, 225–26, 227

  weapons of mass destruction (WMD), 297, 301, 309–11, 314, 319–20

  Weinberger, Caspar, 232, 305

  Weizsacker, Ernst von, 332

  Welensky, Roy, 177

  Wellbutrin, 342

  Wells, Alexandra, 132

  Wells, Gully, 225, 228

  Wells, H.G., 60, 134

  Wells, Peter, 225, 228

  Wernich, Christian von, 196

  Wesley, John, 64

  West, Rebecca, 311

  West Side Story, 208

  Wheatley, Dennis, 57

  Wheen, Francis, 151

  Whipp, Elizabeth, 132

  White, Edmund, 417n, 418

  White, Gilbert, 360

  Whitman, Walt, 204

  Whitman College, 240–41, 243, 245

  Wieseltier, Leon, 391

  Wilcockson, Colin, 71, 92

  Wilde, Oscar, 7, 149, 157, 209, 236, 283–84, 420

  Williams, Danny, 17

  Williams, Raymond, 39–40

  Wilson, Angus, 398–99

  Winfield House (London), 224

  Wodehouse, P.G., 56, 142, 150, 209, 361

  Wolfe, Tom, 226, 227, 228

  Wolff, Leon, 71

  Wolfowitz, Paul, 304–7, 310, 312–15, 397

  Woodward, Bob, 234n

  word games, 130–31, 164–65, 167–68, 170–75, 264–66

  Wordsworth, William, 399n

  work permit, 218, 220, 225

  World War I, 71–72, 97

  World War II, 36, 45, 86–87, 205, 206, 332, 355, 357–58, 368–72, 374–75

  Worsthorne, Peregrine, 177

  Wortham, Hugh, 54–55, 58, 63, 404–5

  Wurm, Mathilde, 377

  Wylie, Andrew, 267, 276

  Wyszynski, Stefan, 190–91

  Yassin, Mehmet, 318

  Yeats, William Butler, 321

  Yom Kippur War, 154

  Young, Gavin, 282–84

  Your Feet’s Too Big (musical), 40

  Zahawi, Wissam, 319–20

  Zayim, Hosni, 332

  Zimbabwe, 88, 100–101, 177–78

  Zionism, 379–85, 389

  Portrait of the author as a young man. The novel is called Soft Answers, and it proved to be second-rate.