Why Hitchens Matters (Robert Wright & Ben Burgis)

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🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Ben, author of a new book on Christopher Hitchens, gives us a brief history of Hitch ... Bob: Hitchens's argument in God is not Great was...not great ... Where was Hitchens’s Marxist materialism when it came to religion? ... Assessing Hitchens’s intellectual contributions ... Was Hitchens an “honest” arguer? ... Why did Hitchens become a hawk? ... Hitchens in light of the Intellectual Dark Web ... Ben gives his closing argument for why Hitchens is still worth thinking about ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:08.7	Hi, Ben.
0:10.2	Hi, Bob.
0:11.3	How you doing?
0:12.9	I am doing pretty well.
0:14.4	How about yourself?
0:15.4	I'm not complaining.
0:16.6	Let me introduce this.
0:17.8	I'm Robert Wright.
0:18.4	This is the right show available on streaming video and audio podcast.
0:24.0	Feel free to rate and review us if you like the show.
0:27.9	And if you don't, then find some other way to spend your time, I guess, other than rating and reviewing us.
0:33.6	You are Ben Burgess.
0:35.3	You're a podcast to yourself.
0:37.3	You have a podcast called a podcast called Give Them an Argument, which I assume grew out of your book called Give Them an Argument, Logic for the Left.
0:47.6	Also, canceling comedians while the world burns, a critique of the contemporary left.
0:52.2	That's another one of your books.
0:54.2	But the book we're going to talk about today is brand new. Christopher Hitchens, what he got
0:59.4	right, how he went wrong, and why he still matters. I am going to challenge you to convince me
1:07.8	of the virtue of spending time thinking about Chris Hitchens.
1:14.6	He and I'm not saying I'm beyond convincing because I only started paying attention to him around the time of the Iraq war,
1:21.5	which he of course favored, I oppose, and around the time of his association with the so-called new atheists,
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