Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)
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Christopher Hitchens: A History and Political Orientation
Christopher Hitchens spent the vast majority of his life on the left in a complicated, ambiguous way and didn't entirely leave it even at the end. But he took these these positions that I hate, you know, on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, most obviously. And my hope is that since I was writing this right around 10 years after, after he died, that that would be enough time for people to reassess him.
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