Raise a Glass to William Hazlitt!
Self-portrait by William Hazlitt, 1802. Public Domain.
This is an editoed version of Alexander Cockburn’s 2010 Xmas essay for CounterPunch.
Hazlitt got gloomily drunk for a fortnight after the battle of Waterloo, accurately anticipating that decades of reaction lay ahead, now that Boney had been definitely put away, with the Holy Alliance in the saddle and the French contagion safely bottled up. Smart fellow, that Hazlitt. He should have stayed drunk for a month.
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