Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)
New Books in Biography
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The Post Cold War Disorientation of the United States
I think that there's a pretty considerable echo of the Nixon Kissinger approached Cambodia in like the shock and awe, Bob in a Baghdad. Both of these factors are about sort of post Cold War disorientation. And I think it is really important that the kinds of wars that the United States are fighting do seem at least superficially really different.
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