13 FEBRUARY 1982, page 8

Bearding The Bible Bashers

Christopher Hitchens Lynchburg, Virginia T n his novel 1985, Anthony Burgess has a lcharacter who says: 'A tyranny can come about through the American democratic process, with a......

Bloody Portents

Nicholas von Hoffman A merica is going through one of its periodic national snivels about the in- gratitude of a planet which repays with disloyalty the many favours received......