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

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

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Hitchens: A Raw Shark Test for People

I feel like Hitchens has become a raw shark test for people. I am addressing the left because I consider myself on the left, although that probably means less today than it may have meant a few years ago. To me, Hitchens just represents a fairly pure and consistent form of liberalism. And then a general sense of universalism suggests the idea that everyone's life has value and it doesn't matter where you live.

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