Originally published December 18, 2011

When Christopher Hitchens died those few days ago, the world lost a champion journalist – one of the relative few who never lost the quest for truth instead of chasing sensationalism. What made him a great journalist and writer was not only his extensive vocabulary and appreciation of language, but that he appreciated the mind and independent thinking. Hitchens knew, and spoke of, that we make our choices in life and part of human make up is hedonism. Hitchens did not hide his thoughts nor make any apologies for any of his habits or choices, whether that was the drinking, smoking or anything else he liked or didn’t (as anyone who ever saw his speeches on religion will know).

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