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Ep. 60: When Hitchens Broke With the Left

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens in the Town Hall Debate

Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens were the debate partners against Leon Wieseltier and Bernard Lewis in the famous town hall debate. At the end of his life, he sort of had a, he wrote his disagreements with Edward. And it made people very angry. But I mean, Christopher, I think, felt pretty ganged up on at that point. You know, friendships with Gorvidal that went, by the way, aside friendships with no time.

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