2006 (UTC) 
 :Well I can't think which one you mean, unless it's "The Teetotal Effect" (Vanity Fair, August 2004, pp.122-126). The subject of the piece is George W. Bush, not Hitchens, who makes no mention of his own drinking, and doesn't attempt to "defend" his or anybody else's purported alcoholism. He DOES attack Alcoholics Anonymous as 'a quasi-cult that demands surrender to a "higher power."' But Hitchens' militant atheism is as familiar as his ability to summon mordant introductory block quotes from Tom Wolfe and Kingsley Amis. -  05:14, 8 May