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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 …

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      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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    6. Greg Sargent‏Verified account @ThePlumLineGS 24 Jul 2020
      Replying to @JamesFallows @HeerJeet

      It was a lot harder to get taken seriously by the journalistic establishment if you were anti-Iraq War than pro. That, plus the sneering contempt for those who disagreed with him you're talking about make it even more absurd to position him as some kind of iconic freethinker.

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    8. David  🇺🇦  🌻 Clingingsmith‏ @dclingi 24 Jul 2020
      Replying to @JamesFallows @ThePlumLineGS @HeerJeet

      I'm still baffled by the transition he underwent in a very short period of time from that kind of position to being an Iraq hawk. Everyone experienced 9/11 but few seemed to change their view on the exercise of US power so thoroughly.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jul 2020
      Replying to @JamesFallows @dclingi @ThePlumLineGS

      I think anti-liberalism and a certain sort of Trotskyite militarism is the threadline that ran through Hitchens life.

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        1. RayCiaf‏ @nbex9 24 Jul 2020
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          like every great neocon before him

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        1. David  🇺🇦  🌻 Clingingsmith‏ @dclingi 24 Jul 2020
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          But supporting militarism in service of US power was anathema to almost everyone on the left in the 1980s and 1990s. I haven't read his old work recently, but I think that's why I was so surprised at his position on Iraq at the time.

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