
Ep. 60: When Hitchens Broke With the Left
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
What Would Christopher Have Doed in 2016?
I think he would have come down to this position of being a neither-Trumper. He hated Hillary Clinton. He had a famous calling out with Sidney Blumenthal, who he was happy to testify in front of Congress about how he was blackening the name of Monica Lewinsky. The one thing that I think that he could not countenance, and he made fun of Trump in the past, is that you look at the piece that he wrote, not long before his died, but a year or two before he died, about the Tea Party. And that's really where you understand how he would think about these people.
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