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 End of History
Tina Fey: Hitchens has lost faith in the socialist projects. She says he was never a supporter of, you know, the Soviet model of what a post capitalist society would look like and wouldn't even think of it that way exactly. Fey: He spent all this time as a journalist trotting around the globe befriending local dissidents and Trotskyists. But by the time he writes letters to young contrarian, which is actually be predile, it comes out one month after 9 11.
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