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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jul 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted David Brooks

      1. I loved Hitchens but it's worth noting that the entire trajectory of his career goes against the narrative Brooks is constructing here. The more of a reactionary crank Hitchens became, the bigger platforms he gained.https://twitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1286619122835619845 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      David BrooksVerified account @nytdavidbrooks
      Christopher Hitchens was one of the great essayists in America. He would be unemployable today because there was no set of priors he wasn’t willing to offend. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/opinion/substack-newsletters-writers.html …
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jul 2020

      2. Some history: I first started reading Hitchens in the 1980s, when he was mainly found in the pages of very small literary magazines (Grand Street: his best essays) & mid-size political ones (In These Times, Nation). He was at that time solidly anti-imperialist.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jul 2020

      3. By the 1990s Hitchens was appearing in bigger venues (Vanity Fair) & had also modified his anti-imperialism to supporting wars of liberal humanitarianism (in former Yugoslavia). Not directly connected but the two turns went hand in hand.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jul 2020

      4. The really big shift in his career came after 9/11 when he was able to rebrand himself erstwhile leftist who supported Bush's foreign policy while also repurposing his atheism in a way that was ideologically useful to war on terror (as enemy of "Islamofascism").

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jul 2020

      5. The post-9/11 Hitchens -- supporter of Iraq War, un-PC contrarian who said women weren't funny & Dixie Chicks were "fucking fat slags"-- had immense mainstream success: Atlantic, Slate, best-sellers, White House access etc.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jul 2020

      6. Hitchens entire career illustrates that the path to success to move away from radical politics that make people uncomfortable (is early critique of American imperialism) and market yourself as stylish pseudo-contrarian who upholds status quo.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jul 2020

      7. Fittingly, the person who best explained what happened was Hitchens himself, prophetically in 1985: “To be able to bray that ‘as a liberal, I say bomb the shit out of them,’ is to have achieved that eye-catching, versatile marketability that is so beloved of editors"

      11:01 AM - 24 Jul 2020
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jul 2020

          8. Hitchens entire 1985 statement on the profitability of faux-contrarianism is instructive.pic.twitter.com/MPjkz5LUmy

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jul 2020

          9. Also, while I'm here: Brooks is wrong about this: "The liberal New Republic has less viewpoint diversity than the conservative National Review." TNR runs both socialists, Biden-style liberals, & Never Trump conservatives.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jul 2020

          Jeet Heer Retweeted David Brooks

          10. Louis-Ferdinand Céline was one of France's greatest novelists. He would be unemployable today because there was no set of priors he wasn’t willing to offendhttps://twitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1286619122835619845 …

          Jeet Heer added,

          David BrooksVerified account @nytdavidbrooks
          Christopher Hitchens was one of the great essayists in America. He would be unemployable today because there was no set of priors he wasn’t willing to offend. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/opinion/substack-newsletters-writers.html …
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        1. David Fyhrie‏ @CaliFury 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          In other words, Mr. Brooks continues to understand nothing, and is eloquently wrong again.

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        2. AbhiDhabi5‏ @AbhiDhabi5 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Not sure that's completely true. It's hard to find a good contrarian. And he took on the religious right, Kissinger, Clintons from the left, the Tea Party, etc., to the end. Would have almost certainly been anti-Trump.

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        3. Dr Dr Dr Hero of Socialist Labor, JD, PhD, TL‏ @jamescappio 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @AbhiDhabi5 @HeerJeet

          "Almost certainly."

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