A prominent British editorialist and conservative takes a pessimistic look at the future of an increasingly centralized and socialist Europe. ("Live" with TAE: Peter Hitchens).(Peter Hitchens)(Interview)

There is something about the Hitchens family that breeds controversialists with deft pens. The British expatriate Christopher Hitchens is one of America's most coruscant essayists; brother Peter, a Trotskyite turned Tory, has emerged as one of England's sharpest critics of the United Kingdom's absorption into the European Union. Peter, a columnist for the Mail on Sunday, is the author of The Abolition of Britain, an elegy for a land which he believes to be disappearing under the assault of junk culture, sexual immorality, and European homogenization.

TAE editor in chief Karl Zinsmeister and associate editor Bill Kauffman interviewed Peter Hitchens at his home in ...