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Slow Burn S5 Ep.4: Fighting Words

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🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In the year leading up the invasion, George W. Bush sketched his justification for the war: good vs. evil, us vs. them. The president wasn’t interested in fleshing out the details beyond that, but lots of other people were. How did intellectuals, on both the right and left, help bolster the Bush administration’s case for war? And how much responsibility should they bear for one of America’s deadliest mistakes? Season 5 of Slow Burn is produced by Noreen Malone, Jayson De Leon, and Sophie Summergrad. Mixing by Merritt Jacob. Slate Plus members get bonus episodes of Slow Burn and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In late August 1997, Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris.

1:04.2

Less than a week later, 87-year-old mother Teresa died of cardiac arrest in Calcutta.

1:09.8

The two deaths were met with an outpouring of public grief.

1:13.7

One person who didn't participate was the British journalist Christopher Hitchens.

1:17.8

I've been sitting down and had trod not a landmine, which I think would have been a very

1:21.4

fine way for her to go, then we could say that in a sense that life and death had some

1:25.1

meaning.

1:26.6

His commentary was shockingly unsentimental and unapologetically left-wing.

1:31.8

According to him, the royal family were parasites on the British people, and he argued that

1:36.2

the Catholic Church's opposition to family planning kept parts of India trapped in poverty.

1:41.4

And you call this the ghoul of Calcutta?

1:44.2

Mother Teresa?

1:45.2

Mother Teresa, the ghoul of Calcutta.

1:47.8

Hitchens loved to attack the conventional wisdom.

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