Good article. What was good about Hitchens: his talent as a writer, his insistence on thinking for himself, his opposition to what Orwell called "smelly little orthodoxies". What was bad about Hitchens: his smug self-righteousness, his attitude (especially after 9/11) that anyone who disagreed with him could only be stupid or corrupt or evil, was at war with the tolerance and pluralism that's essential to the liberal democracy that he claimed to be fighting for.