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"What Hitchens Would Make of the Left" with Matt Johnson

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

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The Heterodox Left and the Problems With the Wounded Left

I just think that there's, the way I put it in the book was that Hitchens didn't just clear his throat with a couple of bermides. He would have been arguing against reparations for Africans even though he himself is an African-American. And what Hitchens was taking the pro-reperation side. That's so much of what you encounter today on the sort of heterodox right. You used to get those throat clearance from somebody like Dave Rubin, but now the guy's just on the right.

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