Hitchens vs. Amis: cocky, pompous, conceited

“with their pub bore’s buttonholing manner and with their assumption that we are all as obsessed with them as they are with themselves ...”

Are the sins of the left commensurate with those of the right? Is it just to speak of Stalin's evil in the same breath as Hitler's? English novelists Martin Amis and Christopher Hitchens, former friends, now hate each other. At issue, whether Stalin is as evil as Hitler. Isn't killing 20 million Slavs as evil as killing 20 million Jews?