inlost christopher hitchens 2011.he was alive, no presidents, monarch, politician, not even god was safe from his perfect cutting commentary, his historical wisdom rising. hitchens was unpredictable with whiskey wit, gravel and treat he was a 60's socialist and a ardent supporter of the -- invasion of iraq. no one was a badge of contrary and more probably than christopher hitchens as he once explained to trailing is. out of amongst always be step. if you do feel that the consensus does not speak for you, something about you makes you feel like it is worth being unpopular or marginal, for the chance to lead your own life, have a life instead of a career or job, then i can promise you it is worthwhile. say -- hitch pitch say about this age of donald trump? with marist colleagues, his widow, historian douglas andkley, and martin amos leslie cockburn. looking to all of you. carroll, let me begin with you. you memorably told me that right up until his last moments, he was engaged in the news. we can absolutely predict he w

in ay could beat hitchens debate.have picked up the cause of freedom of the press, anti-authoritarianism, he would've questioned all of trumps seeming fascist tendencies. >> because trump is an opportunity to lambaste traditional liberalism in washington, d.c., and because of the contempt for the clintons that christopher in the election, it is hard for me to know where he would've come down in this election. what you think? >> i think christopher would have been appalled by trump, but he also would've said, who gave us trump? hillary clinton. this differ was not, as you know a big supporter of hillary clinton. iseel he would have said it because he ran that campaign that we ended up with donald trump. he would have laid a lot of responsibility at her feet. aidederalism in fury christopher, it seemed to me. liberalism of the intellectual elites drove him crazy. what do you think he would say about the people who support donald trump versus the people who have contempt for him? >> i think he would be very active in the

race era reached a slow -- true climax in 2001, including christopher hitchens trying henry kissingern the pages of hartford magazine. matthew and secretary called for a senate are you in investigation during the vietnam war. emergency of these to the human rights era was enough to make one nostalgic for the cold war. in the long shadow of september 11, the 1990's look more like the 1920's, the international criminal court looking to suffer the same trait -- fate as the treaty of versailles poorly donations. the time has come to consider the legacy of nuremberg for what it was, not what we would like it to be. nuremberg cited a legal framework for the 1990's were crime trial, the legacy are unclear, because today represents a series of contradictory trials with no single lesson to be learned. the trial is referred to in the singular, there were programsor trial different in scope. the nuremberg trials international military tribunal, continues to be the central object of inquiry for most books on the subject. 14 -- 1945 andr 1946, the court dated 22 of nazi ranking officers. charges i