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Interview with Matt Johnson on Christopher Hitchens

Decoding the Gurus

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Hitchens and the Dark Web

CNN's John Sutter says he can't speak for the late Christopher Hitchens, who was "unpredictable" in many ways. But when it comes to some of the weird intersections between heterodox folks and people like Tucker Carlson or Jordan Peterson, hitchens would have been pretty ruthless about condemning them, writes Sutter. He also thinks that if Charlie Hebdo had published a series of anti-Semitic cartoons, Hitchens would have said they were an exercise in free speech but nobody blew up his office.

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