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@font-face font-family: "Cambria";p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";div.Section1 page: Section1; "All first-price critique first identifies what we're facing," the late, great jazz critic Whitney Balliett once published. By that measure, the documents of Christopher Hitchens have been in the very first collection. For pretty much four years, Hitchens hasbeen showing us, in pitch-perfect writing, what we face when we deal with first principles-the principles of reason and patience and disbelief that determine and notify the fundamentals of our world-principles that, to withstand, must certanly be guarded anew by every generation. "A brief listing of the best living conversationalists in Language," said The Economist, "could possibly need certainly to include Christopher Hitchens, Sir Patrick Leigh-Fermor, and Sir Tom Stoppard.