Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)
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The Importance of Taking the Position That Would Most Alienate the American Right
Peter Bergen: Is it perhaps the anti religious views that, you know, became such a big deal in the late 2000s? So did he just care too much about atheism? This made him Islamophobic? He says for all sorts of reasons, I don't find any of this remotely convincing. Bergen: It's also not exactly unique Chris for Hitchens problem. That was kind of everybody in the Anglo-American mainstream, in the in the 2000s.
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