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 …
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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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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 …
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Maybe making people uncomfortable was the point all along. Idealists and original thinkers can do this. But jerks do it too; it's what makes them jerks.
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Mostly it seems Hitch was absolutely freaked out by the 9/11 attacks, but it was still wild to see the pivot he did.
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This is like those L Ron Hubbard quotes about starting a religion to make money
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His brother Peter is following that to the letter and making a killing.
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Peter made a killing going back to the 1980s after he left the Labour party trying to get radicals elected in GLC (Greater London Council).
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So why did he then turn it into a business model as he aged?
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Everyone needs a retirement plan.
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