“Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.”

American journalist, writer, and editor

Alex Pareene is an American journalist, writer, and editor. He is known for his work at several online news outlets, including leading Gawker as editor-in-chief and later taking senior editorial roles at Deadspin and Splinter News. He later became a staff writer at The New Republic. His career has centered on political and media commentary across digital publications. By 2022, he was publishing The AP Newsletter, extending the same critical voice into newsletter form.