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Interview with Matt Johnson on Christopher Hitchens

Decoding the Gurus

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The Left Struggles With the Elements of the Left

I think the left would do well to observe it and emulate it in many ways. Hitchens started using the word masochism a lot in his last 10 years. He thought there was this sort of general social and political masochism that led his former comrades to this position, he says. And so I just think all these things in, you know, free speech, I mean, his response to the Russian follow, he sounded exactly like he did when when the Danish cartoon controversy ripped through the world.

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