The argumentative Christopher Hitchens

Bertolt Brecht in his play, The Life of Galileo, had warned that “unhappy is the land that is in need of heroes” because the moment we abandon our own reason and rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles. What is needed is continuous doubt and the cut and thrust of debate or, as Christopher Hitchens puts in his latest collection of essays, Arguably (Atlantic Books, £16.99), an extension of his earlier books like In the Line of Argument, Prepared for the Worst, and many others that challenge conventional ways of seeing over a range of issues in politics, literature and religion.

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