Hitchens seems to be what in Dutch would be called 'Weldenkend Links' (tough to translate, but something like 'the Sensible Left'), which roughly indeed is an elite version of liberalism, with some disdain for the 'Leftwing Church' and a semi-arrogant anti-PC posturing on 'controversial' issues (most of these people are virulently anti-Islam), which in Hitchens case appears to be Religion.
That said, he's a brilliant polemicist and seems like a nice person to deal with, so I guess he's not an HP, even if I find most of his positions all but repulsive.
Is "Weldenkend" something like "world-knowing" in literal translation?
It breaks up 'Wel (right) -denkend (thinking)'. So, I think the most literal translation would be 'right-thinking' of some variation thereof.
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