Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

"What Hitchens Would Make of the Left" with Matt Johnson

Jul 4, 2023

55:12

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Episode notes

Introduction

4min

Hitchens: A Raw Shark Test for People

2min

Hitchens's Economic Thinker

3min

Henry Kissinger's Biography

3min

Hitchens's Struggle to Conciliate Ideas

4min

The Rise and Fall of Hitchens

5min

The Circularity of Racism in Argumentation

5min

How Hitchens Can Save the Left, Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter Enlightenment

4min

The Great Replacement Theory

4min

10.

The Importance of Demographic Change

4min

11.

The Limits of Immigration

4min

12.

The Intellectual Dark Web and the Disillusionment of Gen Z

3min

13.

The Authoritarian Habits of the Left

3min

14.

The Role of Race in the Rise of Crime Rates in America

4min

15.

The Heterodox Left and the Problems With the Wounded Left

2min

16.

Brett Weinstein's Covert Agenda

2min

Despite his reputation as a defector to neoconservatism, Christopher Hitchens was more faithfully committed to liberal principles than many on the left today: Free expression, internationalism, individual rights and universalism as opposed to identity politics. That’s the argument Matt Johnson makes in his book, How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment.

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