"Just as one can never imagine Mr. Conquest raising his voice or losing his temper, so one can never picture him using an obscenity for its own sake. A few years ago he said to me that the old distinctions between left and right had become irrelevant to him, adding very mildly that fools and knaves of all kinds needed to be opposed and that what was really needed was 'a United Front against bulls--t.'"
In OpinionJournal, Christopher Hitchens checks in with Robert Conquest.
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