IN JAMES BALDWIN’S ACCOUNT of the Atlanta child murders of 1979-81, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, he recalls a dreadful earlier moment from 1964. The swamps and creeks of Mississippi were being dragged for the bodies of Schwerner, Chancy, and Goodman (done to death by the political ancestors of Bob Barr), and the search parties kept turning up corpses. Examinations…
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens was a contributing editor at the Atlantic and a columnist at The Nation and Vanity Fair. He was the author of several acclaimed books, including 'Why Orwell Matters (2002)' and 'No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton' (2012). His work appeared in numerous American and English periodicals, including Slate, Newsweek International, and The Washington Post. Hitchens was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the New School of Social Research.