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MineralMan

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4. Hitchens was just another writer/philosopher. His influence is quite small really.

Reply to vixengrl (Original post)

Tue Dec 20, 2011, 04:38 PM

Dec 2011

He was widely quoted and widely read by people who don't matter much in the grand scheme of things. I read him from time to time. He didn't speak for me on most things. He's gone, now, and he will soon be someone who is read by even fewer people who don't matter in the grand scheme of things. Moving on...

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You Would Not Tell With Such High Zest-- [View all] vixengrl Dec 2011 OP

Good post. K&R (nt) T S Justly Dec 2011 #1

thanks. vixengrl Dec 2011 #2

the liberal hawks were pretty important in supplying legitimation MisterP Dec 2011 #3

Hitchens was just another writer/philosopher. His influence is quite small really. MineralMan Dec 2011 #4

Of course Hitchens found waterboarding to be torture gratuitous Dec 2011 #5