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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Dec 2021

    Re-reading some of Christopher Hitchens work post 9/11 is unsettling. You can see him become progressively unmoored. Not dissimilar to stuff we've seen during pandemic among some thinkers.

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      1. HeyJoe‏ @thisandthatjoe 29 Dec 2021
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        One of the disconcerting aspects of this is that clearly the unmooring can happen to anyone, including ourselves.

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      1. Luiz‏ @lhgraeff 29 Dec 2021
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        For me, his puerile anti-theism was worse than his liberal hawkishness. Yet both obsessions were a waste of his time and of his talents.

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      1. دانيال‏ @DblNdann 29 Dec 2021
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        A classic 🤢https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2008/05/is-michelle-obama-responsible-for-the-jeremiah-wright-fiasco.html …

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      2. Wyatt Derp  🖐️  🖐️‏ @WyattDerpy 29 Dec 2021
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        He certainly did. But I also remember his 180° article on waterboarding: 'Believe Me: It IS Torture', after he underwent a previously agreed upon kidnapping and waterboarding at the hands of some experienced operators.

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      3. John Firth  🇨🇦‏ @johncfirth 29 Dec 2021
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        I don’t think there was a “kidnapping” element. The Vanity Fair video is up on YouTube.

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      2. Steve Brodner‏ @stevebrodner 29 Dec 2021
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        Do you understand what happened to him?

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Dec 2021
        Replying to @stevebrodner

        I have some theories. Listen to the podcast!

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      1. (((Rick Campbell)))‏ @RickCampbell4 29 Dec 2021
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        Hitchens wasn’t unmoored. He simply replaced the authoritarian impulse in Marxism with that of the Right. It’s actually an easy switch. Your innate prejudices, intellectual pomposity and certainty do the rest of the work for you.

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      2. (((Lynn Gazis-Sax)))‏ @EmpressNorton 29 Dec 2021
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        Yeah, I remember how immediately after 9/11 he still sounded fairly reasonable and then progressively less so.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Dec 2021
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        It's actually a little shocking that for the first few days after 9/11 he kept his cool and then something snapped. And after that he got worse and worse. Very noticable.

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