Peter Hitchens Reflects on 50 Years in Journalism
17th February 2024
For thousands of young conservatives who were born after that era ended, Peter Hitchens has served as a guide who helps us understand why we, too, dislike so much of modernity. He reminds us that it was not always this way, and that saying so matters. We cannot return to the past, he often observes, but we are always in the process of choosing the future—and thus we do not have to make the choices we are making. For that reason, despite his protestations, Hitchens’s writing does make a difference. Because while reading him, many have discovered a heritage largely abandoned before we were born—and have realized what we were missing. Now, many of us know what we like, too.