One of the disconcerting aspects of this is that clearly the unmooring can happen to anyone, including ourselves.
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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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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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I don’t think there was a “kidnapping” element. The Vanity Fair video is up on YouTube.
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Do you understand what happened to him?
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I have some theories. Listen to the podcast!
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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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Yeah, I remember how immediately after 9/11 he still sounded fairly reasonable and then progressively less so.
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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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