
Ep. 60: When Hitchens Broke With the Left
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
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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